# Interviewing guide from Joel On Software

<datetime class="hidden">2004-01-31T00:00</datetime>
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I love the articles which [Joel Spolsky](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) writes, I already linked in an earlier post to an interview he did about social software and forums in particular (I'll dig out the link tomorrow - and the search function is almost ready :-)). Found a [link](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html) via [Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) and [Paul Vick](http://www.panopticoncentral.net/) about interviewing techniques "[The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html)" is pretty interesting and provides some useful advice on hiring.
I have to admit to being the worst person at hiring who has ever lived - ironic considering that I trained as a clinical psychologist...I find it really tricky to adequately assess skills, the tests I've put together in the past have been umm...less than useful. Other problem is that one can't really be made public, as soon as it is, it becomes useless... I have considered using [BrainBench](http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/homepage.xml) tests to assess skills how do other people do this? I've been through the Microsoft interview process, and I really didn't feel it was a good assessment - I did pretty well, and got through the interviews, just the logic puzzles were mostly poor 'math geek' types which I have never found either interesting or easy...