README.md

Interviewing

This shit is hard.

First Principles

Some of these are also reaped from pinned items in the Rands Leadership Slack.

Resources

Why This Shit Is Hard

• You Suck at Technical Interviews

Process

• The StackOverflow Interviewing Process

How to Think About Interviewing

• Work Rules!
• The Hiring Post
• Smart, and Gets Things Done
• Done, and Gets Things Smart
• On Being a Senior Engineer
• How I Interview (Randall Koutnik)
• How I Interview (Cate Huston)
• Hiring Engineering Managers: Screening for Potential
• Google re:Work Interview Practices

Other Side of the Table

• Job Search Retrospective
• Get That Job at Google

Reverse Interviewing

• 14 ideas for what to say when a job interviewer asks “any questions for me?”
• Questions I'm Asking in Interviews

Sample Questions

N.B.: Do not actually use these, and certainly do not just print them out and read off of them, heads down, in an interview or phone screen. I'm listing these because merely reading might be the spark that ignites a more interesting, or at least more personally-relevant, question.

Also, some of these are fairly old, some of these are more geared toward senior engineers, and some of these are may not be relevant, in any way, to what you do. Many of them also are gold mines containing links to other great posts. You could probably spend a day noodling around.

• Retiring a Great Interview Problem
• New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers
• Five Essential Phone Screen Questions
• Rails Interview Questions