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I built an app the hiring panel will never open

DEV Community·Warren de Leon·about 1 month ago
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The hiring panel will never see the app That was the constraint I kept forgetting. I built a whole interview tool with wizards, timers, auto-save, keyboard shortcuts, colour-coded scores. The hiring panel gets none of that . They get a 7-page PDF attached to an email. The app exists for one person: the interviewer, during the call. The PDF is what actually matters. It carries the scores, the notes, the strengths and growth areas, the hire/reject decision, and four appendices of detailed evidence. Everything the panel needs to make an offer or move on. Getting to that point took three attempts. And a bug that nearly cost a candidate their score. The format problem I designed the scorecards for our React Native hiring process earlier this year . Three assessments: a 100-check code review , a walkthrough interview scored 1–5, and a behavioural interview mapped to HL's five values. The scoring worked. The format I was using to capture those scores during a live call did not. Picture the walkthrough interview.…

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