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Harj Taggar

09/26/18

@ Y Combinator

Role-playing a bad interview can help interviewers become more critical and improve their assessment skills by highlighting flaws in their evaluations.

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Building an Engineering Team by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

@ Y Combinator

Building an Engineering Team by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

09/26/18

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Harj Taggar

09/26/18

@ Y Combinator

Train your interviewers to have a good bedside manner, as candidates often cite poor interviewer behavior as a reason for bad interview experiences.

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Jeremy Utley

04/27/25

@ EO

You can leverage AI to roleplay difficult conversations, helping you prepare by constructing psychological profiles of your conversation partners.

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Claire Hughes Johnson

03/05/23

@ Lenny's Podcast

Interviewing is a skill that requires training; it's important to develop a structured approach to evaluate candidates effectively.

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Emmett Shear

04/22/17

@ Y Combinator

Recording user interviews is highly beneficial; it allows you to engage fully in the conversation and later share insights with your team.

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Ben Silbermann

04/07/17

@ Y Combinator

It's important to have confidence in your interviewing style, even if you're not an expert in the field you're hiring for.

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Ammon Bartram

09/26/18

@ Y Combinator

To screen and evaluate engineers effectively, leverage your experience and insights gained from interviewing candidates.

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Roy

05/18/25

@ EO

The technical interview process is flawed; it focuses on memorizing riddles rather than assessing real job skills.

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Vivek Ravisankar

03/30/18

@ Y Combinator

The quality of a candidate's thinking should be evaluated through the questions they ask during the interview process.

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Ammon Bartram

05/18/17

@ Y Combinator

Interviews are the worst way to evaluate engineers, except for all the other options available, so it's essential to make the interview process as accurate as possible.