Recruiting Without Assignments

How I conduct technical interviews to assess candidates

A coworker once joked: “They made me design a reversed binary tree during the interview, but all I do day-to-day is write color codes in CSS to give a button five different shades of grey.”

Too often, assignments feel like a ceremony to join a select group rather than a real measure of fit. That’s why, as a technical interviewer, I’ve developed an approach that helps me understand not just what candidates know, but how they’ll function within a team. Let me explain how I conduct these conversations, and why.

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