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Discussion on: Have you had a positive experience with a recruiter? What made it work?

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Yann Rabiller

My last IT company was KNPLabs. The job interview was amazing. We had a few good laughs and a very kind atmosphere. Two people (one dev and one agile helper) were leading the interview, asking very concrete questions (the tools I was using, how I could describe a component and so on) but also wider and deeper questions (how I was feeling when I was coding, what I was looking for in a company, what kind of mindset I had about learning...). During the interview I felt so good that I knew I wanted to work there.
(I left the company to follow other dreams but they are still in my heart).

I think the most important thing to consider when leading a job interview, is to do everything so that the interviewed person can be perfectly honest about their path and their ignorance. During this interview I felt I could be totally honest about everything (I even said that I knew my future colleagues would throw up when they would read my current code (!), but that I wanted to learn to write clean code).

This trustworthy and honest atmosphere changes everything.