In a former role, I got the opportunity to be on the interviewer side of the table.
I considered it a privilege to have the potential to influence progress in someone else's career.
I am very much in the latter category of wanting to see folks succeed.
We had one candidate that didn't have experience in the particular technology we were interviewing for, but I could tell he was highly intelligent, just very nervous.
I asked him questions on another complex technology that he'd listed on his resume, to try and draw out some of his thinking on his problem solving skills.
He did great.
I suggested to him that he should come to us with questions, and interview us as much as we were interviewing him. I wanted to see him get the job.
He didn't… at first.
The others on the panel didn't give him their vote. We'd picked someone else that ended up flaking out.
I went back and tried to make the case that we should extend him an offer.
They ended up doing so… dude was an absolute ROCKSTAR.
Please be the one that wants people to succeed. Interviewing is hard, people.
I considered it a privilege to have the potential to influence progress in someone else's career.
I am very much in the latter category of wanting to see folks succeed.
We had one candidate that didn't have experience in the particular technology we were interviewing for, but I could tell he was highly intelligent, just very nervous.
I asked him questions on another complex technology that he'd listed on his resume, to try and draw out some of his thinking on his problem solving skills.
He did great.
I suggested to him that he should come to us with questions, and interview us as much as we were interviewing him. I wanted to see him get the job.
He didn't… at first.
The others on the panel didn't give him their vote. We'd picked someone else that ended up flaking out.
I went back and tried to make the case that we should extend him an offer.
They ended up doing so… dude was an absolute ROCKSTAR.
Please be the one that wants people to succeed. Interviewing is hard, people.