Created by [ Rowan Dempster] on Dec 24, 2019
The Electrical Division interview process begins 8 weeks before the start of a term to recruit for new core members. The process applies to all new member positions in the Electrical Division and will be uniform among the different groups up until the host matching process. The interview process was inspired by Google's and Facebook's standardized interview process for interns.
Job Posting
The electrical interview process begins with a job posting on the WATO
website, which will be managed and promoted by Internal Affairs. There
will be a single job posting for all Electrical core member positions,
with the description indicating possible teams they may join. The single
job posting is to simplify and standardize the interview process and to
prevent over/under demand for different teams. The job posting should
open 8 weeks before the start of the term and close 4 weeks before the
start of the term.
Interview Selection
The Director of Electrical, with help from Managers, will screen
applications and select a number of applicants for an interview based on
the expected number of openings. The selected applicants will be then
sent an email invite them to the interview process. This process should
be performed 4 weeks before the start of the term.
Interviews
Each interview candidate should have a new candidate profile created
based on this template to document the interviews: TODO
Interviews should be done between 4 and 3 weeks before the start of the
term.
Culture Interview
The Director of Software and Managers from the previous term will
perform the technical interviews, in person (preferred) or online. The
interview will be 45 minutes with the following format:
10 minutes - Introduction to WATO, what the teams do, type of work being
done, core member expectations
15 minutes - Going over the candidate's resume, experience, interests,
career goals, expectations, and commitments
10 minutes – Lower level Coding Question (such as bit manipulation)
10 minutes – Circuit or Protocol related question (i.e. questions
involving Opamps, Diode, I2C, CAN)
5 minutes - Candidate Questions
What to look for
This interview should answer the following questions
Do we want to work with the candidate? Are they likeable?
Does this candidate seem to be qualified based on their resume and
experiences. Do they at least have coding and/or hardware experience?
What are the candidate's interests and career goals? Are they applying
to WATO just to have something on their resume or are they genuinely
interested in the work?
What does the candidate hope to achieve during their time in WATO?
What are the candidate's existing commitments for the time that
they'll be at WATO? Do they think they have enough time for it?
These are examples of the questions that should be answered in the
interview, and documented in the candidate's profile.
Group Matching
The group matching process is the process of finding the best fitting
electrical group to match with the incoming electrical member. Based on
the candidate's profiles and responses, the incoming Director of
Electrical and Electrical managers will then place all candidates to a
group, by 2 weeks before the term. The candidates will then be notified
by email about the results.
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