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How I Interview

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Technical interviews are terrible because we don’t know what we’re filtering for.

Technical interviews are terrible because we don’t know what we’re filtering for. Interviews are filters I think we all can agree that a good interview filter passes those who will do well at work and fails those who won’t. The trouble arises when we try to come to a common agreement on what “do well at work” means - every company is different. Instead, when we discuss interviews, we should grade them not on conformance to some holy standard but in how effectively they model day-to-day life at the company. This allows us to remove some of our pre-existing bias and focus on finding candidates w

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