Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the technical roles you have hired for?
- What do you find most interesting about recruiting engineers compared to other functions?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Explain the difference between a backend engineer, a DevOps engineer, and a data engineer as you would to a new sourcer.
- Walk us through your sourcing strategy for a senior engineer role where job ads produce almost nothing.
- What does your first outreach message to a passive engineering candidate look like, and what response rates do you get?
- How do you screen for technical depth in a phone call when you cannot evaluate code yourself?
- Which funnel metrics do you track for a technical pipeline, and what did they change about how you work?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about the toughest technical role you ever closed. What made it hard and what finally worked?
- Describe a time a hiring manager insisted on an unrealistic candidate profile. How did you reset expectations?
- How do you keep candidates engaged during a slow interview process without overpromising?
Problem-solving / case
- Your best candidate just received a competing offer 20 percent above your budget. Walk us through your next 48 hours.
- Engineering pass-through rates dropped sharply at the technical interview stage this quarter. How do you diagnose the cause?
- You need to open a pipeline for a machine learning role you have never hired for. What do you do in the first week?
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