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One of the best ways for me to understand a candidate in an interview process OR a prospective lead that I'm reporting to (be it CEO, CTO, VPE) if I'm on the ot
by CharlieDigital 3y ago
One of the best ways for me to understand a candidate in an interview process OR a prospective lead that I'm reporting to (be it CEO, CTO, VPE) if I'm on the other end is to see how they think and how they interact with a community.
Whether that's through a blog, through their socials, LinkedIn posts, through their YouTube, through their GitHub - I review all of it; anything I can find. I want to see how they communicate, how they think, how they comment their code (or don't), their view points on various touchy subjects in software engineering and system design.
It's basic background research. Why suffer through a relationship that isn't going to work out for either party if some basic digging can short circuit that problem? It also provides great context for an interview and points of discussion that help connect with the other party.
- sanderjd 3y agoI think this is not a good idea. It is misleading to dig into what people are like in their personal lives in order to understand what they're like in their professional lives. People have different personas in different situations and for different audiences, and what matters as an employer is what they are like professionally, which may or may not have anything to do with what they're like on social networks or youtube.