Interviewing Senior Developers: Testing Soft Skills with Hard-Skills Questions
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A talk about interviewing senior Go developers that argues soft skills can be assessed through technical (hard-skill) questions. It discusses typical Go interview topics—slices, maps, concurrency and multithreading—and how those technical questions can reveal communication, reasoning and teamwork abilities during an interview.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:17Interviewing senior devs
- 8:02Decoy and trick questions
- 13:37Standard technical questions
- 19:40Communication skills
- 23:17Technical tasks
- 29:15Problem-solving tasks
- 33:15Candidate prep & Q&A
- 47:05Q&A
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