3. Hiring Process

Hiring Process

The ideal goal of the developer hiring process should be to bring aboard people that can help you deliver quality software solutions. In practice, many organizations struggle to implement a good hiring process that attracts talented individuals and identifies those who will be happy and help the company succeed. Many hiring practices, especially when not performed well, deter top applicants from accepting offers. These practices include coding during interviews, homework coding assignments, aptitude tests, interviewers unprepared to perform an interview, interviews expecting great answers on very specific technical topics, human resource department screenings that disqualify good candidates for reasons unrelated to how the candidate may perform on the job, and more. The hiring process does not directly contribute to the success your team may have adopting any practices, but it does affect the quality of the personnel on your teams. Some organizations use a selection process, similar to a hiring process, to choose the people to be on a team to deliver a software solution. In such contexts, the selection process certainly has an impact on the software solution that is eventually deployed.