How to spot high-potential junior talent during interviews

Hiring these days is anything but ‘business as usual.’

Amid a heated race to attract skilled developers and a shortage of senior engineers, companies are quickly altering their strategies – and that means putting the focus on junior developers.

But that’s not all that’s changed. A huge 40% of organizations now regularly hire candidates from non-academic backgrounds. From bootcamp grads to self-taught coders and late bloomers, today’s talent pool stretches far beyond a few select universities or internship programs.

As Principal Engineer at CoderPad, I’ve seen this paradigm shift play out firsthand. In the last few years alone, there’s been an explosion of online resources that make it possible to gain coding skills from anywhere.

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