Hiring process and interview design

Process Data engineer interview loop design SQL + Python + system-design + behavioral loop with rubrics. Process ML engineer interview loop design Four-block ML interview loop separating notebook from production. Process AI engineer interview loop design LLM-applied interview loop, four blocks, no leetcode. Process Data scientist interview loop design DS loop with stats round and variant-specific final block. Process Data engineer take-home exercise design How to design a take-home that predicts production behavior. Process ML engineer system-design interview design System-design prompts with an ML twist (recommender, retrieval, ranking). Process Structured rubrics for data hiring Cross-interviewer rubrics that reduce time-to-decision 30-50%. Process Calibrating data engineering interview loops Quarterly calibration sessions, score distributions, drift correction. Process How to avoid bad data hires The five patterns that predict bad data hires and how to screen for them. Process Onboarding your first data engineering hire 30/60/90 day plan for the first DE at a startup.