Managing Up

How Do You Assess Technical Ability in Interviews?

Episode Summary

Nick, Travis, and Brandon explore how they've tried to improve at assessing the technical abilities of potential hires during the interview process. They talk take-home tests, pair programming exercises, and Nick shares a technique that has worked better for his teams than either of those.

Episode Notes

Nick, Travis, and Brandon explore how they've tried to improve at assessing the technical abilities of potential hires during the interview process. They talk take-home tests, pair programming exercises, and Nick shares a technique that has worked better for his teams than either of those.

Notes:

• Yahtzee problem
  • http://codingdojo.org/kata/Yahtzee/
• Trek Glowacki: "Tired: Engineering Interviews; Hired: Engineering Auditions"
  • https://medium.com/@trek/tired-engineering-interviews-hired-engineering-auditions-5f9f00147a57
• Kevin Goldsmith: The right ingredients for your perfect team
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCYxM9z1dEp
• Kevin Goldsmith: Let's build a product development organization (workshop)
  • https://www.slideshare.net/kevingoldsmith/lets-build-a-product-development-organization