Ask HN: Are my technical interview questions too hard?
We just finished hiring our first 2 JS developers in a while and I was surprised how many seemingly perfect candidates completely failed my technical interview. Our funnel was 150 applications -> 75 potentially viable applicants -> 20 interviews -> 8 finalists. I thought all 8 finalists would breeze through my technical interview but, in reality, 6 of them completely failed it. I'm trying to determine if I'm just horrible at sniffing out bad programmers or if my questions were too hard, bad, or both. The format was a 1 hour in-person interview using a pre-setup JSFiddle to perform the following tasks. (I made it clear that asking me questions, using Google, using libraries like jQuery, or whatever else you'd do during a real-world scenario was perfectly fine). In the comments below I added details about why I asked certain questions and what I was looking for. 1)
Why it failed
We just finished hiring our first 2 JS developers in a while and I was surprised how many seemingly perfect candidates completely failed my technical interview. Our funnel was 150 applications -> 75 potentially viable applicants -> 20 interviews -> 8 finalists. I thought
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- yeldarb
- Ended
- 2018
- Source
- hackernews