We often get the chance to interview our future manager, but usually it’s while being evaluated for a new job. What do you do when you find yourself getting to interview your current manager’s replacement?
Here’s a question I got recently: “Doesn’t it work to ask a candidate what they would do? couldn’t I present a situation to them and ask what they would do?”
My first impulse was to jump into an answer about behavioral interviewing, and explain how…
This is Part 2 of a multi-part series covering some of the topics introduced in our RailsConf 2018 Interviewer Skills workshop.
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series covering some of the topics introduced in our RailsConf 2018 Interviewer Skills workshop.
Part 1 covered how to know what would make a candidate the right addition to your team…
In Thinking Fast and Slow, Dr. Daniel Kahneman introduces the concept of a fact-based, structured interview to mitigate the numerous cognitive biases that come into play when assessing an individual’s aptitude for leadership positions. This article…
Software engineers have the highest turnover rate of any industry with an average tenure of 2~3 years. Why? Because people leave managers, not companies, and as Nicole Sanchez and Danilo Campos point out, tech is full…