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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Sriram Krishnan

      I like many aspects of this interview question. Any interest in me writing an interview question (for e.g. PM) and a rubric attached to it? I have a very strong view that most interviewers/interviewing orgs do not do this very well, and world lacks good annotated examples.https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1222547047846297600 …

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      Sriram KrishnanVerified account @sriramk
      Recent PM interview question I've been using: You're the PM at Netflix handling the home screen. How do you determine how shows get promoted editorially vs algorithmically recommended? Walk through metrics/principles/trade-offs and how it impacts various parts of the biz.
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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      A view I hold less strongly: you should be able to hand candidates your question and rubric in advance of the interview, which substantially no firm will admit to doing.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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          “Admit to?” Many people understand that questions lead to places like e.g. Glassdoor. The more insidious vulnerability is your team will prep their favored candidates for how to answer your question. This will often be done entirely in good faith.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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          “How could you do that in good faith!?!” Pretend you’re having a discussion with a candidate you’re bullish about. Candidate expresses concern about upcoming interview. You empathize. Candidate asks you for advice about particular areas your org treats as very signalful.

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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          Many, many, many interviewers will *immediately* postmortem previous interviews with the candidate, which is not a problem *unless* you were hoping this candidate would be treated similarly to candidates who put less character points into Interviews Well.

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        2. bmac‏ @BezoMaxo Jan 29
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          Replying to @patio11

          Very interesting idea. Would this work for your typical whiteboard code question? Or does that format limit the signals that an org might desire to see in a rubric?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 29
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          Replying to @BezoMaxo

          Whiteboard coding should be nuked from space. In a dystopian world where one has to administer a whiteboard coding interview, one should have a rubric for it.

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        1. Quentin Lader‏ @qualadder Jan 29
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          Replying to @patio11

          Amazon essentially has this policy in giving all prospective interviewees a sheet of our leadership questions.

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        1. Matt Khoury‏ @mkhoury Jan 29
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          I do this. For one reason, that’s a complex question, and in the real-world this PM would have a lot of domain knowledge and experience and could speak specifics. In every real case, this person would have time to ponder and recommend a path. That, is the convo I want to have.

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        1. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Jan 30
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          Kerchoff's Principle applies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle … If you can't do this (or you don't believe you can), you're implicitly privileging people who for reasons of structure rather than skill already know the rubric

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