Keep Interviewing and Nobody Explodes - Reversim 2018

or "How WeWork uses games as part of our hiring process"

While finding good software engineers is hard, finding the right ones for your team is harder. As we grew our engineering teams, we found ourselves putting a lot of time and effort into not just the hiring of employees but also the fine-tuning of the hiring process itself. In this talk, I'm going to share with you how we use games as part of our interview process. What led us to use this technique, a few takeaways from running this experiment for the past year, how you can use it today and of course - a live demo where we defuse a bomb together

Video of ignite talk at Reversim 2018 (Hebrew) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXe4Ryf3SFo

Transcript

1. KEEP INTERVIEWING
 and NOBODY EXPLODES @YONBERGMAN t e c h n o l o g y 05:00
2. HIRING 04:45
3. “CULTURE FIT” 04:30
4. WE PRIORITIZE ENGINEERS 
 WHO CAN WORK IN TEAMS 
 OVER ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE 04:15
5. 04:00
6. LUNCH 03:45
7. 03:30
8. 03:15
9. 03:00
10. 02:45
11. 02:30
12. 02:15
13. 02:00
14. 01:45
15. WHAT WE LOOK FOR PLEASANTNESS TEAMWORK COMMUNICATION PROBLEM SOLVING 01:30
16. FEEDBACK FUN MEMORABLE DIFFERENT 01:15
17. DO 
 SOMETHING
 UNIQUE 01:00
18. UNDERSTAND
 CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 00:45
19. 00:30
20. YOU CAN RUN EXPERIMENTS TOO 00:15