Hiring managers
The Technical Assessment That Tests the Job
A take-home costs the candidate 6 hours and you 45 minutes of marking. A 60-minute pair costs 1 hour each side and tells you more. Here is the comparison.
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Hiring managers
Hiring managers
Structured Interview Questions, With the Strong Answer Written First
Unstructured interviews explain 4% of later performance. Structured ones explain about 18%. The difference is 3 questions per round and a strong answer written first.
Hiring managers
How to Be a Good Interviewer
Robert Walters found 40% of hiring managers never had formal interview training. These 5 habits make an interviewer worth listening to in the debrief.
Hiring managers
How to Hire Software Engineers
The job ad is step 2. Step 1 is a written bar, and the rest of the loop follows from it.
Hiring managers
The Panel Interview That Measures Something
Four interviewers asking the same question produce one opinion, four times. Here is the panel interview where each seat measures something different.
Hiring managers
When a Take-Home Assignment Works
A take-home costs a candidate a weekend and costs you the ones with children. Here is when it is worth asking.
Hiring managers
How to Run a Debrief Meeting
A debrief anchors on whoever speaks first. Scores go in writing before the meeting, and the hiring manager decides on the record.
Hiring managers
The Job Description That Gets the Right Engineers to Apply
A job description needs 5 lines. The problem, the first 90 days, 3 skills, the range and the loop. A template to copy.
Hiring managers
Interview Calibration, Explained
Two interviewers watch the same candidate and reach opposite conclusions. Here is how to run the session that fixes it.
Hiring managers
Why Technical Hiring Is Broken
Most loops measure things nobody agreed on in advance. Here is what that costs, and why I started SmartHiring.