I have been doing lots of interviews recently.\u00a0 My project is half way and it is very behind in the schedule.\u00a0 How do we get into this mess in the first place?\u00a0 As usual it is bad management decision.\u00a0 Somehow we underestimate the complexity of the chip and largely overestimate the productivity of Indian contractors.\u00a0 The only way to stop the project from slipping further is adding more resource.\u00a0 When we first move our operation to Indian, one of the promised advantage is we will be able to get as many engineers as we need.\u00a0 Never believe any sales pitch, especially the sales pitch of Indian contracting firms.\u00a0 Wipro basically runs out of qualified engineers that meets our requirement.\u00a0 Indian contractors is the casue of the mess, it would be repeating the same mistake to hire more of them.\u00a0 This time we are hiring N. America contractors.<\/p>\n
The project is in pretty bad shape, so we are approved to hire 10 engineers.\u00a0 To fill those positions, we have to do lots of interviews.\u00a0 I guess my boss is too busy to interview all of them, so I am helping him to interview the candidates.\u00a0 I did mostly phone interviews since most of the candidates are from the East Coast.\u00a0 I even have an interview with someone from Israel.\u00a0 I kinda act like the first line of defense, screening the qualification of the interviewees before pasting them to my boss for 2nd round interview.\u00a0 My role is to preform technical interview, trying to determine whether the guy knows enough to be productive.\u00a0 Since I am doing phone interview, I can’t ask very detail technical question because it may require some writing and drawing.\u00a0 I found asking what challenges the candidate had in his previous project is very effectively in judging his level of expertise.\u00a0 The more experience the person has, the challenge is usually more complicate.\u00a0 Sitting in the other side of the table gives me new insights.\u00a0 The questions asked by the Interviewer always have a certain purpose.\u00a0 A successful interviewee should look beyond the factual question and try to give answer in a way that satisfies what the interviewer is looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been doing lots of interviews recently.\u00a0 My project is half way and it is very behind in the schedule.\u00a0 How do we get into this mess in the first place?\u00a0 As usual it is bad management decision.\u00a0 Somehow we underestimate the complexity of the chip and largely overestimate the productivity of Indian contractors.\u00a0 … Continue reading Interviews<\/span>