# The Observation Deck » Assessing software engineering candidates

<http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/10/05/assessing-software-engineering-candidates/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Hiring engineers is a tricky thing, and it’s great to see people sharing their processes for evaluating candidates to help others get better as well.

> This document is an attempt to pull together accumulated best practices; while it shouldn’t be inferred to be overly prescriptive, where it is rigid, there is often a painful lesson behind it.

Worthwhile set of concepts.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT76: Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/76/), Notable Links 📌

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