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I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions. I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates. All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate. I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them. Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles. I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process? Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like: - Where do you get your tech news? - How do you learn about new technologies? - What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today? - What is a perfect workday like for you? I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?” I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that. Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates. #jobs

If you're being interviewed for a job in tech, which questions do you think are good to ask because they will reveal red flags about how the company treats their people and the company's attitude to work?

Stuart Langridge (@sil)Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:34 +0000

I've just finished reviewing a few dozen CVs and Covering Letters. Almost all of them were awful! Candidates - I beg you - make this easy for me! I have been given a fixed set of scoring criteria and …

Can we normalize communicating to a job applicant (whom has taken the time to interview) that you're not going to proceed with them, instead of ghosting them? I understand we're all busy but it's rude to leave people hanging when they've taken time to meet with you.

Emma Bostian (@EmmaBostian)Tue, 10 May 2022 08:11 +0000

company messages to me as IC: "sorry, you don't have X years of experience in [very specific thing] so we are less interested" company messages to me as a line manager: "who cares if you have no experience in product eng? managers are managers! come manage our product eng team!"

kf (@kf)Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:55 +0000

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1505913116990836739

Imagine if every recruiting department was turned into a promotions department.

Justin Garrison (@rothgar)Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:52 GMT

Fuck @raiser_bar for having their sales people say to a dear friend "I would have thought you'd want to hire the best engineers, not diverse ones" in response to being told that algo coding challenges are uninclusive and hurt diversity.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey)Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:10 GMT

Good morning to everyone except technical interviews 🙃

Cat Ballar (@catballar)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:00 GMT

What is it about technical recruiter brain that makes them go, “sure, they’ve ignored my first 7 emails, but maybe the 8th will be the charm”?

milf twink (@SamAllenX)Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:14 GMT

✨ From August this year, 🇪🇺 the European Union will require ALL job postings to show a salary range 🎉 #OpenSalaries Translated: performa--hr-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/salaris…

@levelsio (@levelsio)Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:00 GMT

Please stop quizzing engineers on terminology in interviews It's sincerely a waste of time, this isn't school

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:12 GMT

[Hopefully] Ethical tech jobs megathread 👀 If you work for a non-evil (or just less evil?) tech company and you're hiring, can you let us know about it in the replies?

Jessica Rose (@jesslynnrose)Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:07 GMT

Imagine getting on social media to brag about underpaying someone THOUSANDS of dollars. What an evil person twitter.com/jsttechcharge/…

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TECH RecruitHER (MAANG) (@jstTECHcharge)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:41 GMT

too old, too tired, and too talented (@ieshabewriting)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:37 GMT

@Twitter are advertising a Junior Software Engineer role with 5 years of experience as a requirement 😴 I've reread the job page 3 times in case it's a mistake. YUCK

Alice (@alicechance)Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:29 GMT

Someone asked me for advice on how to land an interview @GDSTeam 🎯 I think everyone should have access to these tips My opinions, not official policy 🧵

Harry Vos (@vosageroll)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:26 GMT

Always use free resources for your resume before you go to someone and pay for them to have it done. I promise there isn’t anything anyone can put in that resume for a crazy price that will get you hired.

The Nightmare Before Sailor Ghoul Licking Prada (@javavvitch)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:24 GMT

https://twitter.com/nodirt_/status/1478963449417715713

I once received a recruiting email for a role which reported to me

Chance Kelch (@ChanceKelch)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:46 GMT

Today a recruiter sent an email to my Amazon email address to invite me to join AWS. In the retrospect I should've replied that non-competition clause prevents me from joining cloud providers.

Nodir T (@nodirt_)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:35 GMT

I’m not sure who needs to hear it, but “offering someone more money or a better environment to work there” is called “recruiting.” GTFO with this “poaching” narrative. You employ people, you don’t own them.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:02 GMT

If you try to recruit me for a junior-to-mid level engineering position, please do not claim you were impressed with my resume, as you are either a sexist twat or did not read it.

“Cher Scarlett” (@cherthedev)Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:02 GMT

I’ve had a couple of wobbles recently and thought “maybe I should work full time somewhere” but tech recruitment and interview processes will probably always keep me freelance. I don’t think I could ever go through that rubbish again.

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Sun, 25 Apr 2021 07:47 +0000

https://twitter.com/piccalilli_/status/1386225428227141632

I feel ya, mate 😅 I probably should be looking at moving on, but just thinking about interviewing puts me off 🥲

Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:46 +0000

I just applied to a job by sending a POST request with my deets to their API endpoint 🤯

maggie 👩🏽‍💻🌱 (@maggiecodes_)Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:34 +0000