What are the key points to adopt good engineers?

ByPaul Inkles

Interviewing.ioFounder ofAlign · Learner'S former job is a service that allows for a free trial in exchange for buying a specified item "TrialPay"This was because Mr. Alain had a career as an engineer. Alain, who has repeated interviews with 300 engineers for a short period of about 1 year at TrialPay, briefly summarizes the "points for adopting capable engineers" gained in that.

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Mr. Alain interviewed at TrialPay ranges from college dropouts to students of MIT, Harvard University, and even those who worked at leading companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google and so on. By gaining the opportunity to interview freely for those people, Mr. Alain finds five points to adopt a competent engineer.

The five points are the following.

· The number of misprints is important
· It does not matter whether you went to a top-level computer science university
· The list of side projects (personal activities that are not main business) written in the resume is not important
· GPA also does not seem important
· Experience working in a leading company is important

Alain reveals it in his own blog, how these five points were born.

ByDouglas Muth

Currently, most companies do not conduct thorough analysis of employment data. Of course, some companies conduct analysis, but such companies keep the data strictly within the company, and do not share the general law derived from it extensively to the general public. As a result, recruitment has been proceeded in such a way as to come from certain kind of heuristics, and it has led companies to overlook "engineers with capabilities" which does not match the adoption method.

The answer to the question "Why do you miss a person with the ability?" Is that when a company of a certain scale is reached, it is impossible for recruiters to look through the resume from the corner to the corner , The first stage of the recruitment process, "selection by resume", leads to recruitment-oriented recruitment such as "whether you are learning a top-level university or computer science" by being done by hands other than engineers From, and so on.

Therefore, Mr. Alain asked whether "person who passed the examination by the resume written by TrialPay and was to be interviewed" is adopted or not, and the person having the characteristic is "severe of TrialPay It is said that he studied whether he was an excellent person passing through "interview". The TrialPay adoption process is very strict, only 10% of applicants are interviewed, interviews themselves are done more than once, and a variety of subjects are awaiting such as being asked to actually do the coding work . Therefore, the fixed magnification ratio seems to be 0.2%, and Mr. Aline statistically derived common points which those who survive this competition.

In addition, Mr. Alain's attention is the following eight, and we are verifying whether these have statistical significance.

· Whether you are from a top-level computer science college or not
- Grammatical mistakes and spelling errors, syntactic contradiction, frequent use of buzzwords
· How easy can you explain the contents of work
· Whether you are acquiring an advanced degree
· Length of resume
· Side project
· Experience in a leading company
· GPA

Then, for each item "Effect amount(Probability of effect) "is shown in the graph below. What was considered statistically significant is "3 grammatical mistakes or misprints, syntactic contradiction, frequent use of buzzwords" "experience at first-rate companies" "How easy can you explain the contents of work" 3 One thing that seems to have a particularly great effect was "grammatical mistake, misspellings, syntactic contradiction, frequent use of buzzwords".


◆ Grammatical mistakes and spelling errors, syntactic contradiction, frequent use of buzzwords(The number of misspellings)
What I found most effective was to focus on "mistakes in grammar, spelling mistakes, syntactic contradiction, frequent use of buzzwords". However, when I asked 30 employment managers of TrialPay, there was none of those who emphasized the number of spelling errors.


However, when we investigated the number of misspellings in the group actually adopted, it turned out that more than 50% of the employed people actually had no spelling errors in the resume. There was a marvelous result that a spelling error of less than 1 person accounted for 80% of the whole. The horizontal axis of the figure below is the number of misspellings in the resume and the vertical axis is the percentage of the group as a whole.


Furthermore, the graph below shows the number of spelling misspellings (horizontal axis) of the group not adopted and the ratio of the whole (vertical axis). Although the ratio of zero spelling zero is large when viewed on the whole, you can see that there is a large proportion of people who misprinted clearly compared with the graph of successful applicants.


In the startup, not only important communication skills of "able to write good documents" are emphasized from the fact that important decisions are often given only by the sentences of the e-mails, but often people who can "write good documents" There is a tendency to perform analytical tasks well, Mr. Alain. For these reasons, "Submitting resumes without misspellings is a sign that indicates that you can pay close attention to detail, and such ability is a very important skill in coding and other tasks "I said.

◆ First-class company experience
It was "Whether there was experience with first-class companies" that was effective next to "the number of misspellings". Mr. Alain commented that "In most cases, I did not emphasize the career of the candidate, but it is certain that the top businesses who have done hard work are competent," TrialPay said It seems that they set up startups, Yelp, Zynga of Amazon, Apple, Evernote, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Oracle, Y Combinator as top companies.

ByTsahi Levent-Levi

◆ How easy can you explain the contents of work
In the following image, the side who got a job offer summarizes the words that he used a lot in explaining his past work in his resumeWord cloud.


The word cloud is the one who did not receive an appointment.


When comparing the two, one who got a job offering shows "operation (ship, create)", whereas those who did not receive an appointment use more technical words etc. .

Mr. Alain said that there is only 300 data, "I am not a data scientist, and most of the statistical data that comes up in the discussion comes out with the help of Statwing and Wikipedia More data gathered and if analyzed more rigorously, it may be different from the conclusion derived from me, "he commented.