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Covid-19 or not, you should prepare yourself to hire remote candidates especially in the IT area: Software developers, data scientists, data engineers, DevOps, SREs, etc. There can be a lot of things that may go wrong if you don’t know how to do a remote interview. The worst one is losing the candidate who may make a leap for the company.
I had an interview with a startup based in Switzerland. I don’t know how successful they are but after seeing the interview, I think that it is a startup that is dying to be bought.
Anyway, their HR approached me and asked if I am interested or not. Generally, I don’t reject interview requests because I think it is kind of extra training and who knows? It is a professional life. She said to me “We are searching for the head of data engineering” and “It is very hard to find”. OK, the challenge is accepted.
Several days later, I had an interview with a guy who is in charge of data engineering and machine learning teams. It was a remote interview and when he opened the camera, he was eating fruit yogurt and spilled on his chin. I got the signal that he doesn’t want me in because of XYZ reasons so he wants me to be angry. I thought “what an …” and began to smile :) Then he copied and paste some PySpark code portion to Google Docs and asked: “what is this doing?”. There…
