Software Design and Development
Particularly challenging is the fact that the hallmark qualities of exceptional software engineering candidates are extremely difficult to evaluate. How do you explore a candidate’s ability to innovate and think creatively? How do you determine if he or she is a team player? How do you diagnose their ability to take constructive feedback? How do you investigate someone’s moral fiber?
While evaluating these “soft” criteria is no easy task, doing so is essential in one’s quest to hire the very best. Yet all too often, attempts at evaluating these crucial, yet elusive, attributes consist of questions or challenges that are sufficiently transparent for the “correct” answers to be obvious to most candidates. Thus, nothing of substance is achieved by asking them.
A common resulting pitfall is to instead, focus too heavily on technical minutia, rather than evaluating the candidate’s ability to problem solve, to think creatively, and to work compatibly with the rest of the team.
Effective interviewing and hiring of advanced software developers is as much of an art as it is a science. Alphanumeric Group Inc., over the past four decades, has developed approaches and methodologies to assist you in evaluating the more subtle dimensions of a software engineer’s skills and abilities.
When used collectively, these recruiting techniques yield a highly effective screening process with a proven record of accomplishment of success for hiring salaried or freelance programming talent. Deploying this process to help your company hire the best software talent is what Alphanumeric Group is all about.
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