Andrew King of Ocado Technologies on Great Hiring Practices and Designing Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Andrew King, Organisational Scientist at Ocado Technologies about the hiring practices they use and how to design the culture you want. Why listen to this podcast: • Context effect says that anything that happens in decision making that is altered by the context in which the decision is made • The compromise effect – when faced with a choice of options we try to avoid the extremes • These types of effects impact hiring processes and culture design and have to be actively mitigated against • Design your interviewing questions very carefully to explore the things that will actually help in the decision-making process • The content of an interview is the candidate’s responses, not the questions that are asked • To implement effective change, follow the principles rather than blindly following a process More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2FfKyuo You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2FfKyuo This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.