"Sylvain" wrote in message

John T wrote:
(It should be noted we use the same questions for all candidates.
The only difference between them is we don't bother asking the more
advanced questions if we determine we've reached the limits of the
candidate's knowledge. This allows a better "apples-to-apples"
comparison.)

if I may, this is a major flaw in your process... there are quite a
few websites out there dedicated to sharing information about
interviewing techniques and questions amongst job seekers. The more
visibility your company has, the more likely such site exists for
that company (not
to mention more generic repositories of questions used frequently);
but I digress.

I admit it's a risk, but I don't think it's a flaw.

Perhaps I should have been more clear earlier in that we ask each candidate
the same concepts, not necessarily the identical questions. We have a large
battery of questions available to us and the interviewers typically have 15+
years experience - mostly on large, complicated systems. It has happened
that we've detected "coached" answers and we have re-phrased the questions
on the fly to see if the candidates really knew the concepts. (This has
proven more effective than I'd've thought.) Further, with that much
experience in the room, it's not difficult to drill quite deeply into a
given subject, if needed. Also, we often use a "temp-to-perm" scenario to
help mitigate the remainig risk.

Yes, there have been candidates get through this process that shouldn't
have, but the numbers have been very small.

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John T
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