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Backend Team Final Interview Stage (Remote Edition)

During the next few weeks as we encourage all staff to work from home, we'll be trying out a new "final stage" of the hiring process.

Typically, we'd invite the candidate to the office to meet members of the engineering team in person, have lunch, and chat with the hiring manager.

As such, our remote version of this process should focus on:

  • Social activities. The hard part (technical testing) is over and the focus is on getting to know each other.
  • Letting the candidate see us working in-situ.
  • Getting to know more about the candidate on a personal level.

Things we could try

  • Have the candidate join a pairing session for 1 hour as an observer so they virtually look over our shoulder.
  • Have the candidate join a 15-30 minute social chat with the whole backend team (or as many as possible). We should introduce ourselves, maybe do some ice breakers, try not to overwhelm them!
  • Schedule a short chat with someone who is in engineering but outside the backend team.
  • A virtual lunch at our desks.
  • A show & tell with some object in each person's home.
  • A short game we can all play together remotely.
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