Case Study Interviews
What a candidate tells you about themselves is close to worthless, because after a few interviews everyone describes an idealised version of the same person. A case study takes the description away and makes them act. This is how to design one, run it live, and read what comes back.
- The method, in the site's own colourscurrentSame twelve sections, restyled onto the Simply Broken system: white ground, Mluvka and Spectral, ink and fire. The opening now leads with what a case study gives you rather than what an interview cannot, the unclear instrument diagram is gone, and the two families of case study sit in one left-hand column where the one this page is about is unmistakable. Hiring open ←
- The method, end to endTwelve levels from the belief that history barely matters to a printable run sheet. Two worked cases taken apart line by line: fifty people arriving tomorrow with no chairs, and one library brief used unchanged from junior to very senior. An interactive five-level sounding shows the trade every interviewer makes without noticing, between covering a layer and drilling one branch until the answers thin out. Hiring open ←
Nothing matches that.
This covers the real-time case study, run live inside an interview. The asynchronous kind, where you send a brief and someone comes back days later with finished work, measures a different thing and is only mentioned here for contrast.