
Every company I've worked at had the same broken interview process
There's a dirty secret in tech hiring: the people actually doing the interviews have zero tooling. HR has their ATS. Recruiters have their pipelines. And the tech lead who just spent 45 minutes evaluating a senior engineer candidate? They have a Slack message and a fading memory. I've been on the interviewer side of this at several companies — as a tech lead, staff engineer, head of development. I've done hundreds of technical interviews across these roles. And every single company had the same problem. The "system" Here's what interview feedback looks like at most engineering teams I've been part of: Someone writes a few lines in Slack right after the interview Someone else waits until the debrief meeting and goes from memory A third person opens a Google Doc, writes half a page, then never shares the link Everyone shows up to the hiring debrief with completely different formats and criteria You end up in a meeting where one person says "she was really strong technically" and another
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