Over on the SafeGraph blog, we published: Why SafeGraph Does Written Interviews ✍️ (and Why Your Company Should Do Them Too)
The article went viral this week and so did the following tweetstorm:
1/ Written interviews can help companies better hire thoughtful people.
— Auren Hoffman (@auren) October 1, 2019
As an interviewer, my goal is not to hear the first answer … I prefer to hear the candidate’s best answer.
2/ Giving candidates a couple of days to answer a question (instead of a couple of seconds) yields better answers.
— Auren Hoffman (@auren) October 1, 2019
4/ A written interview is not a test … and it is different from a project or presentation.
— Auren Hoffman (@auren) October 1, 2019
It is essentially the same thing as a live interview except it is communicated in written form so candidates can take their time to compose their answers.
6/ the classic Peter Thiel question is better to ask in a written interview than live.
— Auren Hoffman (@auren) October 1, 2019
Our version is "what is something important that you believe that most people at SafeGraph would disagree with?"
8/ Read more about Why SafeGraph Does Written Interviews ✍️ (and Why Your Company Should Do Them Too) at the @SafeGraph blog:https://t.co/jurfllWnOY
— Auren Hoffman (@auren) October 1, 2019
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