How to conduct 300 interviews per month
Most recently, we began to consider, including various management tricks that should be paid attention to the heads of IT departments. Today, we will continue to work in this direction and briefly analyze the article by Triplebyte about how they managed to conduct 300 interviews in one month and stay alive.
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Ammon Bartram (Ammon Bartram) says that the company began the process of optimizing the recruitment of IT specialists by describing its principles in a special manifesto . On the basis of it and other tools, 300 interviews were conducted, and the Triplebyte team was able to learn the following insights.
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That's how it was arranged. Interviews were divided into 4 sections: from a brief online interview to calls and real work on the project with a screen demonstration.
Here you can highlight the following Triplebyte principles:
Basic insights for candidates:
Given the total number of interviews that were needed, Triplebyte decided that the process should be structured with prior online testing. Data reception showed its importance and in many respects predetermined how candidates will be able to show themselves at a personal interview.
In the course of work, Triplebyte found out that it is possible to give a real assessment of the level of knowledge only in practice. It is important to take into account several indicators at once and compare them with the initial interview.
Any talk about past projects is just talk, they are not a substitute for writing code. The decision on employment in half of all cases can be made already in the first 20 minutes of the interview.
Another good solution is to give candidates assignments that they could do in their spare time and not experience the stress of working live. In addition, some applicants can be admitted to combat projects in order to better assess how easily they can integrate into current processes and how they can be useful for them.
PS A little about the work of our IaaS provider:
/ Photo by Tim Regan / CC
Ammon Bartram (Ammon Bartram) says that the company began the process of optimizing the recruitment of IT specialists by describing its principles in a special manifesto . On the basis of it and other tools, 300 interviews were conducted, and the Triplebyte team was able to learn the following insights.
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That's how it was arranged. Interviews were divided into 4 sections: from a brief online interview to calls and real work on the project with a screen demonstration.
Here you can highlight the following Triplebyte principles:
- familiar and comfortable development environment and language
- a topic in which people are well versed
- candidate should not act at random
- need an algorithm to perform the task
- assessment card needed
- temporary costing is in progress
- general knowledge is assessed
Basic insights for candidates:
- sending a resume does not mean that you are really suitable for a particular position
- your resume is impossible to understand your actual level of knowledge
- your place of study or work does not directly indicate a certain level of experience
Given the total number of interviews that were needed, Triplebyte decided that the process should be structured with prior online testing. Data reception showed its importance and in many respects predetermined how candidates will be able to show themselves at a personal interview.
In the course of work, Triplebyte found out that it is possible to give a real assessment of the level of knowledge only in practice. It is important to take into account several indicators at once and compare them with the initial interview.
Any talk about past projects is just talk, they are not a substitute for writing code. The decision on employment in half of all cases can be made already in the first 20 minutes of the interview.
Another good solution is to give candidates assignments that they could do in their spare time and not experience the stress of working live. In addition, some applicants can be admitted to combat projects in order to better assess how easily they can integrate into current processes and how they can be useful for them.
PS A little about the work of our IaaS provider:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/295892/
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