The Interview Starts Before the First Question (opens in new tab)

After interviewing more than a thousand engineers over 27 years, I have learned that great hiring is not about clever questions, resume theater, or gut feeling. It is about structure, signal, preparation, and the ability to separate people who can merely make things run from people who can actually think, design, debug, and own complex systems. This article is a practical, opinionated guide for interviewers and candidates who want engineering interviews to be less random, less theatrical, and...