Episode 5: Interviews - What we look for in people when we interview

Techpoint Charlie

Quick discussion about interviews and mostly what we look for in people when we interview them.

Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about interviews.

We mentioned in this episode

• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

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Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Topic Introduction (Interviews) (00:01:40)

3. What are biases (reminder) (00:02:56)

4. What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Senior Engineer (00:04:30)

5. What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Junior Engineer (00:06:55)

6. What is Yael looking for when she interviews an Engineer (00:10:04)

7. What is Yael looking for when she interviews generally (00:16:43)

8. What to say and what not to say in an interview (00:19:43)

9. Coming prepared for interviews, is it a thing? (00:22:33)

10. What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Product Person (00:29:16)

11. What do we ask in interviews (00:31:32)

12. What Raz doesn't like in Product interviews (00:35:05)

13. Summarizing and saying bye :) (00:41:24)

14. We like being asked questions during interviews! (00:43:36)