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The Coffee Machine Hiring Test
It is relatively simple to define values for a company, but translating them into concrete behaviors in everyday situations is a much more complex task.
The risk is that candidates trained in storytelling will ace your interview, while those who are more introverted or shy, or who have different life experiences, struggle to express their own interpretation of these values. Everyone claims to be a “doer” nowadays, especially since the tech sector’s recession has pushed companies to rediscover this original hacker spirit, whether real or imagined. In response to this, I looked for a simple and universal test, applicable to all positions, and concrete enough to become trivial, almost insignificant, yet still revealing: if the office coffee machine broke down, how would the candidate react?
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