Open Interview Process
At Cockroach Labs, we are exploring new ways to structure our interview process to create familiarity for candidates and account for bias, resulting in a better candidate experience and hiring decisions. Instead of asking questions based on past performance or hypothetical future situations, we focus on assessing the skills you’ll use in your role with exercise based interviews.
Getting Started →
Interview Process and Timeline →
For Candidates - Applying to Cockroach Labs →
For Recruiters - Resources →
Challenging Our Unconcious Bias →
Exercise Based Interview Questions →
Life After the Interview →
Blog Highlights
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Welcome to the Cockroach Labs Interview Process
At Cockroach Labs, we are exploring new ways to structure our interview process to create familiarity for candidates and account for bias, resulting in a better candidate experience and hiring decisions. Instead of asking questions based on past performance or hypothetical future situations, we focus on assessing the skills you’ll use in your role with exercise based interviews.
Why are we open sourcing the interview process?
To help candidates feel prepared: If you spend the time to research Cockroach Labs and our interview process, we will be thrilled. We think that if candidates spend the time to prepare for engaging discussions with the team, they will be ready to do the same when they join the team!
To usher in a new standard of interviewing and transparency: We want to encourage founders, recruiters, and everyone involved in the hiring process to think outside the box regarding the interview process. We want candidates to get a realistic preview of what’s to come in their role at Cockroach Labs by setting up relevant simulations and scenarios. We are always asking ourselves, “what else can we be doing to provide candidates with a process that is fair and inclusive?”
To collaborate.
Let’s challenge our bias
together
. Let’s all pledge to do better than we have before. We welcome feedback on our interview process and encourage anyone reading this to contribute your ideas to our process as well!
Learn more by reading our blog post, ‘Exercise Based Interviewing at Cockroach Labs.’