Rethinking Technical Interviews with Ashwin Baskaran

Most engineering leaders are still running interviews like it's 2004.
Multiple coding rounds. Brain twisters on whiteboards. Engineers throwing their favorite puzzle at candidates. The whole process optimized for showing off interviewer cleverness rather than predicting job performance.
Ashwin Baskaran figured this out early. He's the VP of Engineering at Mercury, the fintech that more than 200,000 companies trust with their finances. Over his 20+ years in engineering leadership—from startups to Citrix to scaling Mercury—he's watched the industry slowly realize that technical depth alone…