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

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

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:40 Topic Introduction (Interviews)
• 2:56 What are biases (reminder)
• 4:30 What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Senior Engineer
• 6:55 What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Junior Engineer
• 10:04 What is Yael looking for when she interviews an Engineer
• 16:43 What is Yael looking for when she interviews generally
• 19:43 What to say and what not to say in an interview
• 22:33 Coming prepared for interviews, is it a thing?
• 29:16 What is Raz looking for when he interviews a Product Person
• 31:32 What do we ask in interviews
• 35:05 What Raz doesn't like in Product interviews
• 41:24 Summarizing and saying bye :)
• 43:36 We like being asked questions during interviews!