Mehrotra: Asking candidates company-specific home-court questions is a flawed evaluation method
Shishir Mehrotra · The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Aug 14, 2022 · at 1:22:08
Shishir Mehrotra breaks down interview question types into home court, away court, and neutral court.
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“A common mistake people make is they do all questions in home court. Hey, you know, if you're joining Airbnb, what would you do about X? And then, you know, what is the candidate going to say? They can't, clearly can't be as thoughtful as you. They haven't thought about it. Nearly as much as you have. So really what you're testing is, did they come to the same answer that we did? Which is a pretty crappy, like, way to judge someone.”
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