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Practical Sensible Hiring Good Software Engineer Tip #1: Quick Screening Questions
Time-saving for both parties.
4 min readMar 3, 2025
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In contrast to Software Engineer Hiring Anti-Patterns, this article series shares my thoughts on good hiring practices.
- #1: Quick Screening Questions
- #2: Reading Books Regularly (coming soon)
- #3: Clear Writing (coming soon)
- #4: Using keyboard Shortcuts Proficiently (coming soon)
- #5: Master a Text Manipulation Language or Scripting (coming soon)
- #6: E2E Test Automation skills (coming soon)
- #7: Side work (coming soon)
At big tech companies, a single job posting often attracts hundreds of applications. To efficiently shortlist a small number of qualified candidates for further interviews, a standardized screening process is typically used.
The keyword of screening questions is “Quick”, as Rick (in the “Walking Dead” TV show) asked newcomers.
