Tech recruiter questions have evolved over 10 years
Recruiter: Have you worked with microservices, continuous delivery, Docker, Kubernetes, React, AWS, and Snowflake?
Candidate: Yes
Recruiter: Let's move to the coding test!
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Recruiter: Do you have 5 years of experience in developing AI projects?
Candidate: Yes! The only thing is that I started coding 3 years ago.
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Recruiter: How many work hours do you want to do remotely and in the office?
Candidate: I want to visit the office only for team-building events.
How it was before
Recruiter: Did you work with object-oriented versions of PHP?
Candidate: Yes, a bit. We started using PHP 5 on our recent project.
Recruiter: Lucky you!
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Recruiter: I’m looking for a DevOps engineer. Are you interested in this role?
Candidate: I don’t think I’m a good fit; I’m a System Administrator.
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Recruiter: Did you have experience working in Agile/Scrum teams?
Candidate: Not really.
Recruiter: Me neither.