My Thoughts on Technical Interviews-Part 1

1.It is the most important aspect of hiring technical talent(backbone of any technology organization) hence requires standardization.

What I mean by standardization is to maintain a degree of difficulty,ranking of candidate based on difference aspect of that particular technology,exclusion of certain type of questions (both technical and non technical) etc.

2.Standard criteria for being eligible as interviewer.(Years of experience,appraisal rating etc.)

3.Presence of training academy for budding interviewers within the organization.

4.Interviewers need to pass specific tests after training in the Interview Training academy in order to be eligible for taking interviews.

5.Interviewers should be rewarded for taking interviews.

6.Interviewers should be held accountable for the candidates they select.(how I dont know.Need your suggestion regarding this).

Why we can't produce WOW effect!!!

Well... simply because with quality of resources (human,financial and time) it can't be done.We work in an industry in which most of the professionals are average.Few are above average,fewer are good and microscopic number are real good(extraordinary i mean to say). Less money is charged to the customer,very tight schedules are followed,and softwares are produced which 'does the job'.

Now,with the mass usage of websites like facebook,google products etc, expectations of users has increased for good. They are not happy with page refresh,time lags between request-response etc.They are demanding more.Meeting there demands are problematic....due to the obvious reasons mentioned above.

So is this the time to accept the truth and try hard...
or are we still thinking of producing that WOW without trying..
or in that case not thinking at all???
Well I simply dont know.

Sorry guys if I offend someone.....