- Dec 8, 2012 — [Five Ways to Torture Candidates in a Technical Interview](/2012/12/08/five-ways-to-torture-candidates-in-a-technical-interview.html)

When I joined Microsoft in ‘99 I was taught how to properly interview candidates. I was shown the wheel of competencies, a kind of a wheel of fortune where a color represents th...

- Oct 2, 2012 — [Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook News Feed and Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr](/2012/10/02/serkan-piantino-on-scaling-facebook-news-feed-and-ken-little-on-scaling-tumblr.html)

I had the pleasure of interviewing two New York techies, Serkan Piantino of Facebook and Ken Little of Tumblr, at QConNY a couple of months ago. We mostly discussed large scale ...

- Oct 7, 2011 — [Eye&Mind Interview](/2011/10/07/eyemind-interview.html)

Me on Eye&Mind, talking about Art.sy technology, link.

- Sep 7, 2008 — [Tales from the interview: the drool and the handshake test](/2008/09/07/tales-from-the-interview-the-drool-and-the-handshake-test.html)

I feel very inspired by Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing: Tales from the Interview posts, so here’s one from my own.