A Tech Interview That Doesn't Suck

Spoiler alert: not LeetCode!

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Hiring is hard. Damn hard.

The smaller the team, the higher the stakes. The right hires create leverage that helps everyone ship faster; bad hires drag productivity down for everyone.

The Tech Test — a practical assessment of your coding skills — is the beating heart of the software engineering interview loop. From the other side of the keyboard, it isn’t as stressful, but it’s tough to make a binary decision based on imperfect information — a brief look at your coding skills.

With dozens (or hundreds) of candidates in play, it’s understandable why most tech companies fall back on LeetCode to enforce a lowest common denominator of technical skills. 

But I wanted to find a better way.

If you don’t want to wait 3 weeks for the paywall to come down, I’ve written about tech hiring before in The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs.

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