mapping
a 20 to 30 minute conversation, in english, by voice or typing, in which an engineer is asked about their real work through situations that unfold. it produces their skill map.
a mapping covers the engineer’s strongest concepts through staged situations, asks whether they have done each thing for real, and ends with a quick round on the rest.
answers are marked on content against a versioned rubric, never on fluency or accent. there is no single score, and any flag is reviewed by a person before it affects anyone.
related terms
- staged situation: a problem revealed one stage at a time, where each stage depends on the previous answer, so there is no single question to look up and the answers show how someone actually reasons.
- skill map: an engineer’s own record of the concepts they understand and the things they have done, each with the evidence behind it. the engineer sees it before any company does.
- understands and has done it: the two separate questions dwij asks about every requirement: can the person reason about the concept, and have they applied it in real work. a single score would blend them and hide the difference.