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This is an interesting idea, the one challenge is this is really only a small part of the interview. This covers the CAD skills part, but where is the industry
by iancmceachern 2y ago
This is an interesting idea, the one challenge is this is really only a small part of the interview. This covers the CAD skills part, but where is the industry specific knowledge part, communication skills, presentation skills. I can't emphasize enough a "hardware" engineer that has 10 years of experience designing surgical robotics and one that has spent 10 years designing catheters or sunglasses may be wildly different in their suitability for a given role. Both use Solidworks, onshape, etc to design hardware, but these things are not the same. How do you address this challenge?
- cporios 2y agoWe don't want to replace all interviewing. We won't test for culture fit, or presentation skills (although we can test for some industry-specific knowledge and communication skills). You can think of it as technical screening stage.
- iancmceachern 2y agoThat's what I was hoping to dig into. If I'm at a surgical robotics company interviewing for a hardware engineer to design a robot arm, I'm going to give a completely different technical portion of the interview than if I were at a catheter company doing the same, or at a sunglasses company, or dialysis, etc. You could perhaps handle it by having "vertical" specific interview templates. Just thinking through the challenges to adopting this in my workflow. I wish you all the best!