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In this blog, you will find simple and actionable tips and tricks for conducting tech interviews, designing and preparing the tech interview process and developing a great candidate experience. Follow us on LinkedIn for daily interviewing best practices.
The Cost of a Bad Hire
The Cost of a Bad Hire New
A survey of 160+ DACH hiring leaders found the average bad hire costs €28,706. Here’s why it happens, and the interview habit that actually prevents it.
A Qualifying Question: Data Engineering
A Qualifying Question to Ask During the Interview: Our Team's September Pick for Data Engineering
A logic question for data engineering interviews that works in the HR screen or the technical assessment. Suited for mid/senior candidates, with a scorecard so you don’t need SQL to grade the answer.
Your AI Hiring Deadline Moved. Your Disclosure Duty Did Not.
Your AI Hiring Deadline Moved. Your Disclosure Duty Did Not.
The EU's Digital Omnibus pushed the AI Act's hiring compliance deadline back sixteen months. The one-sentence candidate disclosure requirement kept its original date, and almost…
Make It a Conversation, Not an Interrogation
Make It a Conversation, Not an Interrogation
Structure and warmth aren't opposites. Why the best technical interviews feel like a conversation, and three small shifts that get you there without giving up your…
One-Way Interviews Cost You Half Your Applicants
One-Way Interviews Cost You Half Your Applicants
A randomised field experiment with over 3,000 real applicants found that swapping a live interview for a one-way recorded one cut the applicant pool by 53%, and it wasn't the…
Your Gut Feeling Is Not a Hiring Metric
Your Gut Feeling Is Not a Hiring Metric
Gut feeling has a place in hiring, but only as one final score, not the whole evaluation. What Daniel Kahneman got right about intuition, and what actually predicts job…
How to Prepare Your Candidates for a Tech Interview
A nervous, under-prepared candidate doesn't perform like they would on the job. Here's what to send candidates before a technical interview, so nerves stop getting in the way of a fair…
Cognitive Ability Is Not the Best Predictor
Cognitive Ability Is Not the Best Predictor of Job Performance
A 2022 re-analysis of the classic hiring-validity research puts structured interviews ahead of cognitive ability tests. Here's what changed, and what to do about…
Learn how to interview engineers
Hiring exceptional software engineers requires more than technical expertise—it requires a structured, evidence-based interview process. In this guide, we explore why great enginee…