Introduction

This guide covers the engineering selection process, from resume review to turning over a candidate to HR for an offer.

At a high level, the process looks like this:

1. We post a job ad for a limited period of time, and collect resumes.
2. Resume review: we review and score resumes given our scoring guides.
3. All resume scores handed back to HR, who review the cohort. Top candidates move on.
4. Phone screen: an initial 30 minute phone screen - passing candidates move on.
5. Pre-work: candidates will be asked to come to interviews with some position-specific pre-work (typically, code to show)
6. Interviews:
   • Technical: pre-work review with technical interviewer
   • Technical: questions from the position-specific tech interview guide.
   • Core values: questions from the (shared) core values guide
   • Combined (technical + core values) from a senior interview
7. Interviewers submit written recommendations to the hiring manager. Hiring manager makes the final decision.

For more details, dive into the following documents:

• Detailed process guide - read this if you need to "run" a hiring/selection process, or if you're a process nerd and want to know all the detailed steps from A-Z.

• Resume review guides - read these if you need to review resumes:

  • General resume review guidance
  • Resume review rubrics (aka Crediting Plans)

• Phone screen guide - read this if you're conducting phone screens

• Pre-work - read these if you're assigning or reviewing pre-work:

  • General pre-work assignment and review guidance
  • Back-end engineer pre-work

• Interview guides - read these if you're conducting an interview

  • General interview guidance
  • Core values interview guide
  • Front-end/back-end engineer tech interview guide
  • Infosec tech interview guide

• How to check a reference - read this if you need to check a candidate's references.