APPENDIXA

Sample Question Plan and Interviewer Book

Sample Question Plan

A question plan like the example in Table A-1 is the set of questions your interviewing team plans to ask to measure a candidate across the capabilities you care about. It’s not necessary to have an explicit plan, to list every question or sort of evidence you want to gather, or to follow exactly the plan you make. Building a plan has value as an exercise, and a documented plan can be used in training or as a guide to set up a new interviewing process.

Table A-1. Example Question Plan for SDE Interview

Capability Questions
Coding Write a method to count the number of LED segments necessary to display an arbitrary integer number. (Moderately difficult)
Coding ...

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