How to Interview Remote Software Developers

Knowing how to interview remote developers effectively is a critical step in choosing the right candidate to join your company. Hiring the wrong candidate can set your project back, eat into your bottom line, and frustrate your team. Shannon Shaper, who helped fine-tune Google’s recruiting process, says that “hiring is the most important thing you’ll do as a business.” We couldn’t agree more. Yet, the people put in charge of hiring rarely have specific experience in conducting interviews! This makes the hiring experience stressful (for them and the candidates) and ineffective (for the company).

So it’s really no surprise that many companies have jumped at the idea of handing over the hiring process to an algorithm. Unfortunately — to date anyway — no algorithm can consistently choose the best candidate for your role. Algorithmic methods do not factor in enough variables. In many ways, we wish they could. We’re a tech company first and foremost. We’ve built all our internal systems from the ground up, including our own skills test app and task and project planning platforms. A 100% algorithmic solution would be cheaper and faster.

But it would be less effective.

Right now, the single most powerful option you have for finding the right candidate is a one-on-one interview. In this article, we’ll dive into what the initial…