How do you provide a good candidate experience during the technical assessment?
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The best software engineers will often have a choice of which company to join. The interview process is an opportunity for you to demonstrate the positives and the reality of your company so that the right people choose to work for you.
In this discussion, let's talk about good practices and how these can be applied to small and mid sized operations, while at all times remaining fair, representative and repeatable.
From this you can adapt and construct an approach that illustrates your values well.
Please consider, and be prepared to explore during the discussion:
- Does your process allow a candidate to highlight their strengths, even if that candidate is not full of confidence?
- Is your process respectful of the candidate? For example in terms of respecting their time, and showing them respect in the interview itself.
- Does your process give the candidate an insight into what the job would be like?
Host: Adam Dangoor. Adam is both a senior software engineer and a professional technical interviewer, working on behalf of technology providers. Adam additionally mentors software engineers on interview technique. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamdangoor/