Plug-and-Play Interviewing
No ramp-up, no training required. I embed seamlessly into your hiring loop and start contributing immediately.
Evaluation Techniques
With 250+ interviews as an Amazon Bar Raiser, I help your team craft clear rubrics for evaluating candidates consistently.
Lasting Process Improvements
I coach your team on best practices so you continue hiring well long after I’ve finished.
When Technical Interviewing Fails
Even experienced engineering teams struggle with consistent, effective technical hiring. Here's where things often go wrong:
Interview loops lack alignment with role expectations; questions aren’t calibrated for level, emerging skills like AI are overlooked, and critical areas like code quality are often missed or blurred.
Teams struggle to capture, score, and document candidate responses in a consistent way. Debriefs are unstructured and often fail to drive clear, confident decisions.
Engineers aren’t taught how to interview well. Without proper training and mentorship, they lack the skills to evaluate candidates reliably or align on what "good" looks like.
Hi! I'm Chris Arensdorf
I spent 8 years at Amazon as a senior engineer and interview "Bar Raiser", where I conducted over 250 interviews and played a key role in raising the hiring bar for AWS and Amazon Robotics. My deep experience constructing technical interview loops, evaluating talent, and mentoring interviewers has helped shape high-performing engineering teams across Amazon.
With 15+ years of experience building software at scale, from real-time robotics systems to launching new services on Amazon S3, I bring a rare combination of engineering excellence and hiring expertise. I now partner with companies that want to improve their technical interview process, make confident hiring decisions, and build stronger teams.
I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). When I'm not helping teams hire technical talent, I enjoy traveling, cooking, baking, hiking, skiing, and tennis.
What I Bring to Your Hiring Process
Assessing AI Skills in Interviewing
Your engineers are incorporating more AI into their coding workflows every day; it's time you hire candidates that know how to do the same.
Develop A Reusable Hiring Rubric
Create structured, role-specific rubrics that ensure fairness, reduce ambiguity, and keep your interviewers aligned on what a good hire looks like.
Leverage My Interview Question Bank
Leverage a reliable set of technical and behavioral questions tailored to your roles, designed to elicit data, not stump candidates.
Constructing Interview Panel
Assemble a balanced panel that covers all necessary competencies, minimizes overlap, and represents the skills most critical to your team.
Training Engineers How to Be Interviewers
I coach your engineers to run interviews with confidence, consistency, and clarity, turning your team into candidate data collectors.
Prebrief, Debrief, and the Interview
I guide your team through structured prebriefs and debriefs, turning scattered feedback into informed hiring decisions with clear data.
Choose Your Product Offering
- Interview participation (prebrief, interview, debrief)
- Evaluation Rubric Building
- Bulk pricing available
- Unlimited access via email/phone
- Technical interviewer coaching
- Access to my Interview Question Bank
- Interview participation (prebrief, interview, debrief)
- Evaluation Rubric Building
- Bulk pricing available
- Unlimited access via email/phone
- Technical interviewer coaching
- Access to my Interview Question Bank
Get In Touch
Email us or give us a call if you have any questions about our services; we would love to hear from you!
