The 18F Hiring Process A Nice Example

This resource first appeared in issue #114 on 19 Mar 2022 and has tags Hiring: Other, Hiring: Interviewing and Evaluating, Technical Leadership: Software Development

I really like this documented hiring process by 18F in the US Government. It’s a well thought out process, and it’s written in a way that you could send to candidates so they know exactly what to expect. It’s even in GitHub.

I also really like their technical pre-work - it’s either to provide some code they’ve worked on, or to do one of four exercises. The exercises are simple but non-trivial get-and-process-data exercises that would give a lot more confidence about ability to do real programming tasks than some kind of fizz-buzz.