Past editions - Hiring for Tech

February 2021

• What's still wrong with tech hiring — February 15, 2021
• One size does not fit all — February 8, 2021
• Formal interview training — February 1, 2021

January 2021

• Interview apprenticeship — January 25, 2021
• Interviewing and pattern matching — January 18, 2021
• Technical skills every software engineer interviewer should have — January 11, 2021
• Prepare your story — January 4, 2021

December 2020

• My optimism for tech hiring in 2021 — December 28, 2020
• Looking back at Hiring For Tech in 2020 — December 21, 2020
• Writing good interview feedback — December 14, 2020
• Getting to know the candidate before the interview — December 7, 2020

November 2020

• Placing candidates on the tech ladder — November 30, 2020
• Solving iterator interview problems with recursion — November 23, 2020
• Getting the candidate to the finish line — November 16, 2020
• Having something to show — November 9, 2020
• Trick questions and partial answers — November 2, 2020

October 2020

• My resources for dynamic programming — October 26, 2020
• Looking for strengths is not lowering the bar — October 19, 2020
• Breaking down a one-hour interview — October 12, 2020
• How to improve your interview skills by doing your job — October 5, 2020

September 2020

• Hiring junior engineers - Part 2 — September 28, 2020
• Hiring junior engineers - Part 1 — September 21, 2020
• The private programmer — September 14, 2020
• The prisoner's dilemma of training your employees — September 7, 2020

August 2020

• Open book tests — August 31, 2020
• Do you know how the new hire is doing? — August 24, 2020
• Warming up in a tech interview — August 17, 2020
• How fair is the take-home assignment? — August 10, 2020
• Reducing interview stress with independent work — August 3, 2020

July 2020

• Let the candidate choose their programming language — July 27, 2020
• How tech interviews fail those with hidden disabilities — July 20, 2020
• Executing code virtually — July 13, 2020
• Gathering requirements in an interview — July 6, 2020

June 2020

• Fighting bias with structured interviews — June 29, 2020
• Hiring for the role — June 22, 2020
• Meeting the bar — June 15, 2020
• Why you're probably not hiring the best — June 8, 2020
• Speak up — June 1, 2020

May 2020

• Letting the little things slide, remote interview edition — May 25, 2020
• The power imbalance in hiring — May 18, 2020
• System design practice: designing a payment system — May 11, 2020
• The project interview — May 4, 2020

April 2020

• Dissecting the front-end interview — April 27, 2020
• A remote revolution? Or a backlash? — April 20, 2020
• System design practice: read-after-write consistency — April 13, 2020
• Why a recession is the right time to hire — April 6, 2020

March 2020

• Tech Hiring on the Building You Podcast — March 30, 2020
• System design practice: distributed ID generation — March 23, 2020
• We're in it together — March 16, 2020
• Job offers and total compensation — March 9, 2020
• Are you asking candidates to read your mind? — March 2, 2020

February 2020

• If you want diversity, you need targeted hiring — February 24, 2020
• The balanced parentheses problem — February 17, 2020
• False positives and false negatives — February 10, 2020
• What's wrong with tech hiring — February 3, 2020

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