Interview Them Where They Are

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$ ps aux | grep wat | awk '{print $2}'

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$ ps aux | grep wat | awk '{print $2}'

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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

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Asynchronous JSON and... Xmascript?

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Asynchronous JSON and... cript?

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"This isn't hard"

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(We didn't get to the hard part)

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Interviewing is broken. How do we ﬁx it?

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Interview Them RailsConf 2019 Minneapolis, MN, USA Where They Are

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> DoubleAgent.find 49 => #

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Find the people we need to grow our teams

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Optimize for demonstrating competencies

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"We're looking for someone with a bachelor's degree in computer science (or equivalent), one to three years of experience, and knows JavaScript + React and Go. Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes."

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We're looking for someone with a bachelor's degree in computer science (or equivalent) One to three years of experience Knows JavaScript + React and Go Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years One to three years of experience Knows JavaScript + React and Go Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years One to three years of experience Knows JavaScript + React and Go Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years Comfortable building features and looking to grow to own entire services Knows JavaScript + React and Go Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years Comfortable building features and looking to grow to own entire services Prefer knowing either JS + React or Go, but for more experienced candidates, not a hard requirement Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, microservices, and Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years Comfortable building features and looking to grow to own entire services Prefer knowing either JS + React or Go, but for more experienced candidates, not a hard requirement Describe our stack: JS/React + Go, PG, microservices + Kubernetes

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No degree requirement, no "equivalent experience" or years Comfortable building features and looking to grow to own entire services Prefer knowing either JS + React or Go, but for more experienced candidates, not a hard requirement Describe our stack: JS/React + Go, PG, microservices + Kubernetes

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"We're looking for someone comfortable building features and looking to grow to own entire services. We prefer that candidates know either JavaScript and React or Go, but this is not a hard requirement. Our team uses JS/React, Go, and PostgreSQL, organized into microservices orchestrated by Kubernetes."

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✅

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Know who and what you're looking for before you interview

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This includes how you measure success

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"They have to be short enough that they can be explained and solved reasonably quickly, yet complex enough that not everyone can solve them. Therefore, it's unlikely that you'll be asked any real-world problems." — Programming Interviews Exposed

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Meet Ada 4

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Strengths

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Strengths

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Strengths f(x)

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Made-to-measure interviews

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Meet Ben 6

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Strengths 7

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Strengths > > ✨

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Strengths ⚖

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Look for strengths rather than prod for weaknesses

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Meet Charlie ;

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Strengths

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Strengths

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Strengths

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Doesn't this introduce bias?

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Uniform != Unbiased

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Know who and what you're looking for before you interview

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Try made-to-measure interviews

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Look for strengths rather than prod for weaknesses

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An interview fails the interviewee when that interview does not anticipate candidates like them

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Credits De Bruijn sequence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence Milton Bradley/Hasbro's "Operation": https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_b0a7dc62- d987-4dae-84f6-4fabd53046a1 Cover slide image: https://ﬁrebrandtalent.com/wp-content/uploads/BEnglish191018.png Quicksort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort Stack Overﬂow image: https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.316142692.7951/ap, 550x550,12x12,1,transparent,t.png "T. Hanks": https://www.redbubble.com/people/defendingdrealm/works/31688245-thanks-tom-hanks