A Better Technical Interview 💚

[samjonester]

Your name and twitter handle:
Sam Jones @samjonester

Your talk idea, described briefly:

Technical interviews are scary! They often involve pairing, but not the way we do it in real life. Let's discuss a better way to handle technical interviews than playing buzzword bingo and solving algorithms as fast as we can!

This talk presents a better approach to technical interviewing:

• Focus on how to break down problems.
• Prioritize workflow rather than completion.
• Treat it as a chance to see how a candidate learns and teaches in an unfamiliar setting.
• Give positive feedback about what to learn for the next time. Candidates should either be hired or not yet hired.
• Make sure the candidate leaves having learned something from the interview! Don't waste their time even if they're a "not yet".

Approx length - must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
10-15 min

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
Passion / Softtalk / Noob-love

[pixelyunicorn]

Thanks for your talk submission! We only have time for one more talk at our Jan 24th meetup, is there a preference on which talk you wanted to give?

• A Better Technical Interview (A Transformative Pipeline w/ Highland Streams + Lodash FP 💚 #10)
• A Transformative Pipeline w/ Highland Streams + Lodash FP (A Better Technical Interview 💚 #11)

I (personally) prefer "A Better Technical Interview" to balance out the technical nature of the rest of the 3 other scheduled talks, but that decision is completely up to you.