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Corollary: Have your interviewers be experts in the specific are you're trying to hire. If you need a ruby engineer, don't submit them to a generic hiring pane
by anon9001 5y ago
Corollary: Have your interviewers be experts in the specific are you're trying to hire.
If you need a ruby engineer, don't submit them to a generic hiring panel. Have them spend an hour or two talking shop and doing some pair programming with one of your most expert rubyists. Master craftsmen can pick each other out in a second, but a whole hiring panel can fail to spot both bullshit and greatness.
- HWR_14 5y agoHave at least one interview stage with experts in something specific. Having someone else filter out "cannot program" is fine to prevent the Sr. Ruby Engineer from looking at 95% "cannot program" candidates. But that whole thing fails because often a skill needed is new. The easiest example I can think of is when a startup goes from 0 to 1 in the HR/legal/accounting areas.