Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Interview Process - scoring sheet with weightage of many areas

Interview Process continued from my earlier posting ...

This blog is in response to the questions from people asking questions like:
• I answered all questions but why did I not got selected?
• I fared well in technical but still could not succeed?
• I was asked managerial questions not related to technical?

Let me explain what happens in a normal interview happens to better understand what is happening and why?

Every interviewer is usually given sheet which he uses for interviewing. This sheet is usually like a checklist which indicates the areas in which the candidates has to be evaluated and scored. This checklist is according to the job description or role for which company is looking for recruiting.

Every area also is given a weight age. This weight-age is according to the role again. Some things like fresher may have higher weight-age in syntaxes and knowledge of language/platform and learning abilities whereas senior developer moving into leader role may have higher weight-age for management, version management, estimation, tools, testing etc.

Soft Skills are also very important. Attitude, Communication Skills, Learning abilities is highly important. So if candidate does not know anything because he has not worked in it but shows a general aptitude that he is fast learner will be high on selection list….


Let me explain more with a fictitious example of a scoring sheet:
Interviewer usually forms his own set of questions to judge each area…

I have put the weight-age at main area level for simplicity but it could be sub-area level. This weight-age is different for different roles and projects etc. Like a project may need more of web programming or some project may need more of Windows programming accordingly the weight-age will get adjusted.

Like for learning ability can be judged by how good a candidate is in taking hints and analyzes a scenarios.

This is just a rough example to give idea of how could a person answering everything right in .Net area gets still rejected. It is also to show that demonstration of soft skills and learning ability can be very important…

So you see Candidate A even with lower technical rating got selected with 900 over 810 because of better rating in other areas and scored over Candidate B.

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