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Dear Tech Hiring managers, please stop
Hiring managers, please study this list of poor interviewing techniques and try to improve. TL;DR, scroll to the end for a solution.
Try it. Please try it. I’ve hired my best engineers this way.
Stop hiring for superheroes
No one can fulfill your job description list of 50 skills. No one. I doubt they need to, either. I’m not convinced anyone possesses the stamina to even read to the end. That wall of inconsistently worded text just makes your company look unfocused. Probably 4 of them are key skills, but the candidate won’t know which because of your scattergun technique.
Stop hiring for your exact tech stack
You’re missing an enormous opportunity here and showing the candidate you lack flexibility and originality. You should seek fresh blood, someone with a new perspective, someone to bring the experience of a different tech stack to your organization. This is your chance to bring in new talent, not just more of the same.
Stop selling me your “family”
Is the CEO inviting me to his BBQs? No? Then we’re not a family. Don’t patronize the candidate. Work is a professional arrangement for mutual benefit, not a family. My family doesn’t pay me for showing up, more’s…