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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2025-03-13"]
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Date: "2025-03-13"
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# Podcast recording — 2025-03-13
Recorded episode with Clara Dupont. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: second session with Clara — focused on engineering hiring at scale, including how to design interview processes that actually predict on-the-job performance
- Clara shared the complete interview redesign she led at her company, replacing the traditional whiteboard algorithm rounds with take-home projects followed by pair-programming sessions on the candidate's own code
- Her data on hire quality before and after the redesign was compelling — new hire retention at 12 months increased from 72 percent to 91 percent, and time-to-productivity decreased measurably
- Another excellent episode with Clara; she brings the same product thinking to organizational design that she advocates for engineering teams
- Key insight: "Your interview process is a product, and candidates are your users. If your conversion rate is low and your churn is high, you have a product problem, not a pipeline problem"
- Audio quality was excellent; Clara again recorded from her company's media room

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Clara and ask if she can share a redacted version of her interview rubric
- [ ] Draft show notes with the interview redesign framework
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- [ ] Create social media clips — the interview-as-product analogy is highly shareable
