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Hiring a Developer Today Can be Easy
Hiring the right person is hard today, but there are ways to make your choice easier and better.
I’ve been involved in a lot of interview processes during my previous experiences. And it’s not an easy exercise.
There are plenty of developers coming from different backgrounds in 2021. From self-teaching to Ph.D., but also boot camps, developers have never been as diverse as today. It is also quite easy to pass an oral interview by learning by heart the basics of your technology and looking for interview questions on the internet.
So, how to be sure, as an interviewer, that you found the right fit for you?
Prepare the interview
Before giving anything to do to your candidate, you’ll want to have a first, face-to-face, interview. This is your first “filter” to see if the candidate, on paper, is a good fit.
The interview should be technical, but not only! Indeed, a good fit doesn’t mean a “coding machine”! Your candidate needs to also to be able to work with your current team.
The human side
What I call the human side, is how the developer would behave within a team…
