How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team

APPENDIXB

Sample Candidate Guide

A Guide to ExampleCorp’s Interview Process

Dear Candidate,

This document briefly describes the experience you should expect during the application process.

First, thanks for your interest! We’re glad to know of your interest in ExampleCorp in general and our team in particular. For skilled and ambitious people, this is a great place to work in many ways. Perhaps chief among those is our culture and its embodiment in us and our behaviors: customer focus, great engineering principles, delivering results, and so on. We have some seriously cool technology and technical challenges, too.

Here is an outline of the basic steps of the process and what you should see at each stage. This is a work in progress—this document ...