We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by skybrian on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:37PM (#21696986)

When I was at Google, interviewing was considered everybody's job, but without any particular benefit from doing them. They'd just try to guilt you into doing them. (I think they'd try to guilt some people harder than others, though.)

I think this is a mistake. Interviewing is a teaching/sales role and many people need coaching to come across as friendly. They aren't going to get that coaching if they see it primarily as an obligation.

I did them for many years out of a feeling of obligation, but if I got better at it, it was slowly, and with diminishing returns. It was just more of the same experience.

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Re:We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline proble... by gedaxiang on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:25AM (#21699835)

So much this. I don’t mind running interviews, but I don’t think I’m particularly good at running them, especially in the “making the candidate feel comfortable” angle. With engineering having such an outsized proportion of introverts and, for the lack of a better term, oddballs, we could take a better look at who _should_ be interviewing.

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