How to screw up hiring
summary
Lists of arbitrary requirements and demanded degrees cost good applicants and waste time; remove bogus requirements and state what the job actually needs (tech, goals, constraints). Stop unpaid, open‑ended take‑homes: give a bounded task, publish scoring rubrics, or ask candidates to fix a short buggy repo so tests pass. Avoid adversarial whiteboard puzzles; run interviews with real tools, be supportive, and use realistic bug‑fix exercises to see how people actually work.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22How to Screw Up Hiring
- 2:41Job Ads Remove your terrible requirements
- 4:35Job Ads Let people tell you what they bring to the table
- 5:08Job Ads You do not need a degree (Generally)
- 6:06Job Ads So what do you do?
- 7:34Take Home Tests Tell people how to succeed
- 8:00Take Home Tests Be realistic
- 8:34Take Home Tests Set boundaries
- 9:21Take Home Tests Give people something they want to do
- 9:55Take Home Tests So what?
- 10:40Interviews Be Realistic
- 11:08Interviews Be supportive
- 11:21Interviews Nobody likes magic answers
- 12:16So Hiring is important
- 12:46So Stop blindly copying others
