Recruitment process

[kinofrost (Chris)]

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What kind of test can you give the candidates as part of the interview?

Hey all, We currently do not have any automation testers in our company but have been on the look out for a while. We recruited a couple but they left after a couple of months. We are still on the look out, however I wanted to know whether it’s common to give the candidates some sort of test as part of the interview? There has been quite a few interviews where the candidates have reached the 2nd stage and when it got techy they struggled. I think this can be avoided if a test scenario of som…

Hiring processes and emphasis placed towards puzzles and reasoning tests

I think these things are tools and it depends on how they are used. A big problem is that people use these tests like exams… but they don’t know how to write good exam questions, and maybe don’t know how hard it is to evaluate someone. Writing a simple methodology for a science experiment is hard enough, let alone evaluating a human. Secondly people don’t actually know what they want to hear from a test. I’ve sometimes asked questions in an interview about the test and afterwards received feedb…

Does anyone do any practical interview tests?

Well first I should add, if it wasn’t obvious, that my expectations have to match the person I’m interviewing. If they use different words but can make me understand them, I’m okay with that, and if they’re more “senior” then I expect them to be able to explain themselves better. I need to be a great interviewer to get the best out of an interviewee especially if they are nervous. I find that people testing at interview get stuck into a focused state, and reminding them to defocus in the wrong w…