In my opinion, I would give the candidate a positive feedback if we had a comfortable conversation and i liked them. I don’t think it is a good idea to judge the candidate using the “14 leadership principles” (talking about you amaz). I don’t think that will help me finding someone I want to work with. What do you think?
There is the company fit and team fit. Company fit is the same for all bay area tech companies. Be disruptive and passionate, or in other words thirsty without being too much of an asshole. The team fit is affected by interviewers and hiring manager's personal biases (whether they know it or not).
Try to find something you disagree with them about and see how they take it. You can purposefully take a stance you wouldn't otherwise take just for the exercise.
Interesting strategy. If it is something obviously wrong, wouldn't that risk putting a bad impression about the team on the candidate?
Yeah, don't scare them off with something ridiculous, and you don't even have to directly disagree, just sort of imply that you might not agree. Like if they say they really like functional programming you could say, "Huh, interesting, why do you like functional programming?" You put them in a place where they feel like you're not buddies for a little bit and see what they do. At the end you can always bring them back on board with something like "Yeah totally agree, I personally love func prog too, just curious what your thoughts were on it"
Do you support trump?
This is rich coming from a CCP supporter.
Hah. Agent Chow’s cover has been blown.
The hardest thing you have to do is to identify company culture. This is more difficult than it sounds because you've been immersed in the company BS for so long it's become part of you. Think about the parts of the culture you enjoy and the parts you'd like changed. Could the candidate enjoy them? Is he a workaholic while you emphasize wlb? Does he over engineer while you move fast and break things? Is he willing to fight to change the toxic parts of the culture or will he contribute to them? I like to imagine the candidate is given unlimited authority over my department. Will I like the changes he makes or will he make me want to quit?
A values panel should be about making your bias explicit: “we care about these things, they are our values”. You should be able to probe the company as well to see if they live those values. I wouldn’t hesitate to ask ahead of time what they value (if it’s not on the website) and prepare myself for how those resonate with me.
Usually it's a lunch conversation about teamwork, collaboration, past project and interest. This is more of a session to find red flags.
There is no thing called “Cultural Fit” cultural fit comes in to play when you want to fail them
Actually let me fix these, when u want to fail them due to your incompetence
ew, couldn't be more wrong
If you’re the same ethnicity as the hiring manager and 90% of the team congrats bro you’re in
“ethnic fit”
Lmao, people are so uncomfortable when I tell them the reality of the situation