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		winrid on Aug 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech Interview Handbook Phone screens should prevent those candidates from ever getting onsite. You'd be surprised (or maybe not now) how many applicants for a senior frontend position can't build a progress bar for the phone screem.

shagie on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

I've given phone screens to individuals who turned out to be a different person when they showed up onsite. Not "nice on phone, jerk in real life" but rather "Bob does the phone screen for Charlie (and passes), Charlie shows up at the onsite."

farah7 on Aug 18, 2019 | [–]

I usually have video off during phone screens. Do you require them on?

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