The other half, or why interviewers aren't always great and how to make them better
We’ve written before about what the data says makes a good interviewer and about how companies do a poor job of incentivizing engineers to be good interviewers. But we’ve never really described what it feels like to interact with a great interviewer and how being one matters now, more than ever, given how well-prepared candidates have become and how much harder it is to get signal from them as a result.
Btw, if you have strong opinions about interviewing or hiring that you’ve been itching to write about, we’d love to hear from you. Please email me at aline@interviewing.io.
Jos Visser is a consummate IT professional with over four decades of experience interviewing and being interviewed. He has over 500 interviews under his belt at companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and OpenAI. On top of that he was a member of hiring committees and created and delivered many different training programs aimed at making people better interviewers. Jos can be reached at josvisser66@gmail.com or through LinkedIn.
It is high time we start talking about interviewing. I know it seems like we are talking about interviewing all the time, but we are usually talking about only one half of the equation: How to be a good candidate. What about the other half? What about the interviewer?
