The Pre-Interview

All candidates should be pre-interviewed before bringing them in for a full interview round. The pre-interview can be a phone screen or a brief in-person interview. It has two purposes:

• It confirms that the candidate’s interest, availability, and compensation expectations match our own. (This can be handled by the hiring manager or HR/recruiting.)
• It assesses background and technical skills to make sure the candidate is a plausible match. (This should be handled by hiring manager or a team member. Although HR/recruiting is able to do some filtering of the candidate pool, a sanity check on technical skills needs to come directly from one of us.)

Only the most-promising candidates from the pre-interview should be brought in for a full interview round.

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