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Hiring backend interns with a take-home and a scoring rubric

Problem
Whiteboard interviews were selecting for nerve, not for engineering.
Scale
Two intern cohorts, roughly 40 candidates each.
My role
Engineering Manager. Wrote the exercise and the rubric, ran calibration.

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