Source: thenewstack.io
How to Make Tech Interviews Suck LessCategory: Business, Architecture, scale, Hashicorp
Interviews for tech jobs can be performative at best and exclusionary at worst. Exercises meant to gauge a developer’s technical prowess can seem arbitrary and irrelevant to the role being filled.
If the tests that you are doing favor a particular group of people, you’re just going to hire more of those sort of people, and your problem-solving capabilities are reduced.”
If someone has the skills and they are able to highlight that in the interview, they will get the job,” Dobson said.
And if you are asking people to write code or strategy that isn’t directly related to the role you’re hiring for, then why are you even bothering?
If the tests that you are doing favor a particular group of people, you’re just going to hire more of those sort of people, and your problem-solving capabilities are reduced.”
If someone has the skills and they are able to highlight that in the interview, they will get the job,” Dobson said.
And if you are asking people to write code or strategy that isn’t directly related to the role you’re hiring for, then why are you even bothering?
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