How to be a better interviewer
summary
Industry hiring norms cause mirror-based hiring and poor outcomes so change focuses on concrete practices: replace culture-fit with a values interview, stop whiteboard stress tests, and evaluate learnability instead of CV years. Use pairing during interviews, prepare structured questions, and flip the feedback to ask what the company would need to change for success. Data points: ThoughtWorks UK moved from 9% to 28% female (2002–2004), a 2014 process became dubbed one of the world’s toughest, and Interviewing.io highlights “let’s be smart together.”
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- 0:00How to be a better interviewer, change the world and work with amazing people.
- 9:24Binoculars Over Mirrors
- 14:52Commonality Crushes Critical Thinking
- 19:48There's no such thing as a candidate. Just a potential colleague.
- 24:30What most people really mean when they say someone is a good fit culturally is that he or she is someone they'd like to have a beer with.
- 26:28There is no such thing as a culture fit interview.
- 38:43Step away from that whiteboard.
- 40:14What are your core behaviours?
- 43:08Structured Interviews over Winging It
- 46:51Why pairing works in interviews.
- 54:19Thank you.
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