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Re:An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:08AM (#44852903)
Our process is fairly simple:

1. 60 minutes interview with the CTO.

2. At home coding challenge. Candidates can pick one from 2 coding challenges. But we try to keep them engaging and fun, but still complex in details. Sometimes people don’t want to invest this time. That’s acceptable, but in this case you have to show os some of your work from the past, so we can discuss this.

3. Interview with 2 engineers from the team. We are doing coding challenges as a base for this interview. It’s just a way to get people talking with each other on technology and how they work.

4. Make an offer or say no to the candidate. Everyone involved in this process from our side has a veto right. So if one person says no - it’s a No.

5. Send contract to the candidate, if they accept the offer. This is the first time in the process where HR is involved. Everything else before was done by the Dev Team.

I think this is the most important part, show respect by taking care of the process by yourself and communicating with the candidate.

Ask HN: Who should you follow on Mastodon?

It seems like there are a lot of people starting to post on Mastodon now. I think it would be great to have a list of some of the best tech people to follow.(I know there is an older post from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116)

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Re:Choosing Ember over React in 2016 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:28PM (#12972622)
There are a lot of people out there making such decisions every day. Does anyone know a guide for making the right technology decision?