The Science Behind Making Software Engineering Interviews Truly Predictive of Job Performance

Written by Qualified.io | Published 2020/03/17
Tech Story Tags: talent-acquisition | hiring | software-engineering | interviews | coding-interviews | technical-interviews | good-company | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR There's an enormous amount of research and empirical evidence out there that details exactly how you can build a more predictive hiring process for software engineers. Tech industry and hiring managers at large have all but ignored these findings, relying on antiquated hiring processes that have proven to be anything but effective. The gains from increasing the validity of hiring methods can amount over time to literally millions of dollars, says Frank Schmidt and John Hunter in their study The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods In Personnel Psychology. By adopting more valid hiring procedures, they could turn this competitive disadvantage into a competitive advantage.via the TL;DR App

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Written by Qualified.io | The most effective way to assess software engineers
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/03/17