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Dec 1, 2020

Feedback and questions: Do’s and don’ts of the interview process p.3

Last part of this series. Here are the previous parts: Part 1: Basics Part 2: Coding task In this article, we will look at closing the interview. It has two major parts: 1. Giving feedback 2. Candidate’s questions Giving feedback I prefer the term feedforward, as Marshal Goldshmit calls it, over feedback…

Interview

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Dec 1, 2020

Coding part: Do’s and don’ts of the interview process p.2

This is the second part of my article on interviews. Part 1 is here. Surprisingly a lot of psychology here. Let’s start with some obvious equations: People are lazy. Interviewers are people (well, most of them are). Ergo, interviewers are lazy. How lazy, you might ask. Very. Most interviewers have…

Interview

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Dec 1, 2020

Do’s and don’ts of the interview process

Basic principles I have conducted a lot of interviews in my career, maybe 400 in total. We screen and prepare people for interviews with companies like Microsoft and Google, so these are the toughest interviews out there. I wasn’t good at this in the beginning, made all kind of mistakes. …

Interview

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