INTERVIEW
ENGINEERING

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If you are passionate about improving the engineer interview process and would like to become involved with the Interview Engineering mission, that's a possibility we can explore along various paths. We are on the lookout for: • contributors to write peer-reviewed journal posts • forum moderators • survey building • survey management • data analysis • interviewing specialists • online/e-mail marketing • B2B training and consulting specialists Start by becoming a site member and contributing to forum discussions, familiarize yourself with the literature on the topic* and core Interview Engineering tenets through the journal, and then reach out via the Contact form. Thank you! *Suggested Reading List Books: • Peopleware • The Talent Advantage • High Output Management • Topgrading • First, Break All The Rules Other Articles: • Bellotti, Marianne.  Hiring Engineers.  Leanpub.  12 July 2020. • Cappelli, Peter.  “Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong”.  Harvard Business Review.  May 2019. https://hbr.org • Dietrich, Erik.  “Hiring is Broken… And It Isn’t Worth Fixing”.  DaedTech.  28 Apr 2017.  https://daedtech.com/ • Ionescu, Vlad A.  “The (Opinionated) Way We Interview Engineers”.  Earthly Blog.  19 July 2023. • Mangot, Dave.  “Engineering the hiring of engineers”.  CIO.  27 Jan 2020.  http://www.cio.com • Parnin, Chris and Matt Shipman.  “Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills”.  NC State University.  14 Jul 2020.  https://news.ncsu.edu/ • Thomas, Rachel.  “How to Make Tech Interviews a Little Less Awful”.  Medium.  5 Mar 2017.  https://medium.com/ • Walden, Stephanie.  “Step Away From the Ping Pong Table—There Are Better Ways to Contribute to Your Company's Culture”.  The Muse.  19 Jun 2020.  http://www.themuse.com/ • “My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups”.  First Round Review.  https://review.firstround.com/