Using the Right Coding Interview to Hire Engineers

Gary Cheung
8 min readAug 23, 2020

Software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and DevOps engineers are expensive and a pain to hire. Companies use technical challenges to assess a candidate’s coding capabilities. However, it’s tough to get it perfect since there is only so much an interview that can capture about an engineer’s technical potential. Many companies do not put structure around their hiring process and assume as long as any technical interview takes place, the candidate is qualified. Unfortunately, hiring the wrong candidate can be detrimental to both the capabilities of the team…

--

--

Gary Cheung

Big Data focused architect & strategist. Life Sciences and Genomics enthusiast