Interviewing for leadership positions

In how to hire I shared the practices I use for hiring. My preference is to ask candidates to work on a take home problem, and then base the interview on how they approached solving the problem. It is similar for leadership positions as well.


Systems optimize for inspection points

I recently had a discussion with my peers about engineering productivity and metrics around our fiscal allocations. some concerns about the rate at which certain software defects were being resolved. There was one concern: defects labeled P3/P4 (lower priority)…