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Honing your interviewing process will allow you to build a competitive advantage. When you can differentiate well, you will identify strong, highly capable candidates whom your competitors will overlook or mismeasure.

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McCuller, P. (2012). Interviews. In: How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4918-4_6

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