Posted over at my current company's blog (current company for two more weeks):  Impressions of speaking at the FlixTech Summit . In this post I talk about how I prepared for my first-ever tech conference talk, and how it all felt.

Finally the video of my conference talk has been posted on YouTube ! Enjoy, I welcome comments...

(I gave this talk at the FlixTech Summit convention in late June, here's my attempt to transcribe it. The video should be posted to YouTube soon, when it is I'll link to it. Here are my slides .) Technical interviews are one of the most important and difficult things we do, yet often there's a haphazard approach to conducting them, with predictable uneven results. A few numbers from the Net: Only 25% of technical interviewees are consistent in their performance.  -   interviewing.io Strong performers mess up technical interviews 22% of the time.  -   interviewing.io Most interviews can only explain 14% of an employee's performance  -   Wired   Obviously we need to improve our technical interviewing! Interview Goals The technical interview is one step in the process that usually starts with a CV entering our recruiting pipeline, and hopefully ends with an excellent new team member being hired. It's probably the most important step in this process: