How to interview [memo]

Just met this nice article by Laurie Voss called You suck at technical interviews.

Here is TL;DR from there:

• many interview techniques test skills that are at best irrelevant to real working life
• you want somebody who knows enough to do the job right now
• or somebody smart and motivated enough that they can learn the job quickly
• you want somebody who keeps getting better at what they do
• your interview should be a collaborative conversation, not a combative interrogation
• you also want somebody who you will enjoy working with
• it’s important to separate “enjoy working with” from “enjoy hanging out with”
• don’t hire assholes, no matter how good they are
• if your team isn’t diverse, your team is worse than it needed to be
• accept that hiring takes a really long time and is really, really hard

Here is the link to original post

Good read.