About Elman Huseynov
Elman Huseynov is a tech hiring expert in Berlin and the founder of SmartHiring. He is a software engineer with 10+ years in tech, at Zalando, Shopify and Scoutbee. He has run 100+ technical interviews and hired 10+ engineers as an interviewer. SmartHiring trains engineering panels to score candidates the same way.
What does SmartHiring do?
SmartHiring trains the engineers who interview for a company. It starts with an audit of the loop. A workshop follows, on the team's own open roles. Calibration then runs until two interviewers score the same candidate the same way.
The engagement ends with the team running the loop without outside help. Scorecards, the question bank and the calibration record stay with them. How the training works.
Where does Elman Huseynov's experience come from?
Elman Huseynov's experience comes from running interviews. He still writes code every week. He still sits in hiring loops and the debriefs that decide them.
- 10+ years building software, across agencies, startups, Scoutbee, Shopify and Zalando.
- 100+ technical interviews run, and 10+ engineers hired as an interviewer.
- Based in Berlin since 2020. Works in English and German.
What does Elman Huseynov write about?
Elman Huseynov writes the SmartHiring blog, one post per stage of engineering hiring. The stages are scorecards, calibration, debriefs, take-home assignments, rejection feedback and onboarding. Read the blog.
Interview coaching for engineers, talks and the longer CV are on helloelman.com.
How should SmartHiring be named?
Write the brand as SmartHiring by Elman Huseynov, with a link to smarthiring.tech. Other firms use the same name. smarthiring.com sells a psychometric hiring test. smarthiring.pro is an IT recruitment agency. Neither is connected to Elman or to this site.