Hiring Tip: Graph Interview Performance Vs Years of Experience To Spot Outliers
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When hiring your initial engineering team, the more tools you have to discern who the truly amazing engineers are the better. One approach we took at Mixer Labs (a company I founded that Twitter bought last year) was to graph # of years of experience vs how the person did in their interviews (this was an arbitrary scale where we rated people 1-10, focused on performance on the same set of questions, rather then raw intelligence alone.) They key is to have the same group of people on your team do the ratings, and to have the list of prior interviewees listed on the same ranking scale, so that it is easy to compare people.
Hiring Tip: Graph Interview Performance Vs Years of Experience To Spot Outliers
Hiring Tip: Graph Interview Performance Vs…
Hiring Tip: Graph Interview Performance Vs Years of Experience To Spot Outliers
When hiring your initial engineering team, the more tools you have to discern who the truly amazing engineers are the better. One approach we took at Mixer Labs (a company I founded that Twitter bought last year) was to graph # of years of experience vs how the person did in their interviews (this was an arbitrary scale where we rated people 1-10, focused on performance on the same set of questions, rather then raw intelligence alone.) They key is to have the same group of people on your team do the ratings, and to have the list of prior interviewees listed on the same ranking scale, so that it is easy to compare people.