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by Stratoscope
4200 days ago
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Thank you, that sounds like a brilliant technique! One question: Do you let candidates know ahead of time what the interview process will consist of? That sounds like an important step that many companies leave out - whatever interview process they use. I think if I knew before arriving that this how it would work, I'd be a lot more excited about the interview and better prepared too. |
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Because it also requires a lot of mental commitment from the interview team as we'll as the candidate, I'd recommend using this technique as the final hurdle. I don't think you want to phone screen someone, then just toss them into this process. You need to have them cross some basic technical gate (like FizzBuzz, a take-home coding project, whatever), and have them meet a handful of people first, just to make sure they pass those early smoke tests.
In fact I think this technique works best when you want to seal the deal with a very strong candidate who is entertaining several options. Interviews should always be a two-way process, and if a candidate walks away from your interviews thinking "I had real trouble getting my point across to those people, I would never work there" then that represents success for the interview process.
The strongest candidates tend to be the ones least influenced by money and more interested in the problems, the people they will be working with, the culture and the environment of the organization. So having your interview process structured around revealing that gives you the best possible chance of matching your team with people excited to be there.
Conversely if you're a candidate, even if the company you're applying with doesn't seem to have thought too deeply about this stuff, don't despair. Hiring is one of the hardest things to do and also tends to be done by the seat of the pants (Amazon seems like a notable exception) You can impose your own structure by asking the right questions and making special requests of the recruiter. Tell them you want a chance to write code with someone! Or that you want to mock up a UI that solves a problem they have. Or you want to see what their strongest engineer thinks of your design for this service you've put together.
It doesn't matter if you're desperate for the job, or whether you wish they'd stop calling you ... this kind of stuff makes you stand out in the crowd as proactive and motivated by the right reasons.