Andrew Munn A Software Engineering Student. Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right. The job market for software developers is hot.
This is great news for programmers, but it makes the interview process challenging for potential employers. A reader recently wrote me expressing some concern about the interview process: You mention Vertigo requiring a code sample, then a phone screening, then a hands-on test in the face-to-face. We have a very similar process, but somehow a large percentage of the candidates who make it to the hands-on test are very poor and should have been eliminated at step 1 or 2. Five-essential-phone-screen-questions - steveyegge2. I've been on a lot of SDE interview loops lately where the candidate failed miserably: not-inclined votes all around, even from the phone screeners who brought the person in initially.
It's usually pretty obvious when the candidate should have been eliminated during the phone screens. Well, it's obvious in retrospect, anyway: during the interviews, we find some horrible flaw in the candidate which, had anyone thought to ask about it during the phone screen, would surely have disqualified the person. But we didn't ask. So the candidate came in for interviews and wound up wasting everyone's time. Antipatterns. Jobs openings at TiVo - TiVo.
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