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This special feature covers strategies to lead an effective technical interview! Through live examples, we share your 3 main responsibilities, how to give clarity & guidance, set candidates at ease, create consistency & get the best from candidates in your technical interview with Lusen Mendel (Director of Developer Relations @ Karat) & Rohit Grover (Senior Interview Engineer & Mentor @ Karat).

Lusen Mendel (they / them) is Director of Developer Relations at Karat, where they share interviewer best practices with interviewers around the world. Previously, Lusen helped build Karat's Interview Engineer organization. Before that, they managed engineering teams at Indiegogo and Rackspace, worked as a software engineer at a number of startups and research groups, and graduated with a couple of Computer Science degrees from MIT.

Lusen is also the host of Candidate Planet - a podcast / YouTube channel empowering engineering candidates to ace interviews, negotiate offers and advocate for themselves at work. 

SHOWNOTES

• Setting the Stage - Interview Example #1 (1:41)
• Time management during the technical interview (5:52)
• Your 3 main responsibilities in the technical Interview (6:29)
• Setting candidates at ease when they're having difficulty during the technical interview (8:26)
• Interview Example #2 (8:58)
• How to get the best from candidates during the technical interview (11:17)
• Sources of noise & bad signal in the technical interview (16:48)
• How to give hints appropriately in the technical interview (19:15)
• Interview Example #3 (21:04)
• Creating consistency in your technical interview experience (22:12)
• How to handle a difficult technical interview (25:07)

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