Show HN: Get Paid to Give Technical Interviews

Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Give Technical Interviews by blisterpeanuts on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:01PM (#9124827)

I did some free lance interviewing for one of these types of companies a few years ago. The theory is, get a bunch of well qualified senior technical types to conduct anonymous phone interviews and do a general technical screening.

In practice... it was very low paying, boring, and often irritating. There were some really unqualified people I had to interview and it was agonizing.

I don't see this model as working very well. I didn't work for the employer, so I couldn't really represent them or cut the applicant any slack. I could only ask them canned questions. I tried my best, but I have no idea whether the results were usable.

I wonder what kind of people these employers ended up getting, when they outsourced their interviewing process like this.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Give Technical Interviews by typpo on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:47PM (#9124993)

Thanks for the feedback! Interviewing is definitely not always pleasant. In general, the way I picture interviewers on this service is more of an opt-in thing ("oh, I have an extra hour tonight, I can definitely do an interview for $150") rather than a full-time freelancing commitment.

If you do have technical people in-house, I think outsourcing the initial screens is ok but I'd strongly recommend having in-house engineers doing the subsequent interviews. A service like this is best positioned for "first steps" - ie phone interviews.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Give Technical Interviews by jamescraft34 on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:07AM (#9130536)

You hit the nail on the head:) We have been tackling the same concept over at Honeit.com and see a lot of value in this space. Would love to swap stories if up for a coffee chat in the bay.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Give Technical Interviews by camhenlin on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:39PM (#9128006)

Thanks for the short explanation, sounds interesting and I signed up after reading it

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