Start with an ordinary week.
Pick three situations the new engineer will face. Describe the work in your team’s terms: extending a feature, debugging a customer integration or deciding whether a separate service is justified.
Give the planning partner your stack, team size, operating constraints and how your engineers use AI. A list of technologies alone leaves too much unanswered.
- What will this person be trusted to decide without checking with you?
- What mistakes would be difficult for the team to recover from?
- Which abilities must they bring, and which can they learn on the job?
Ask for a short list.
Choose two or three abilities for one exercise. You may want to see how they clarify a brief, direct an agent and verify the result. An assessment that tries to cover everything can become long without revealing much more.
Ask the planning partner to connect each ability to something observable. “Good judgment” needs a concrete decision you can discuss.
A prompt to try
Help me plan an assessment for [role] on a [team size] team using [stack]. Their day-to-day work includes [workflows]. Ask me one question at a time about the decisions they will own. Then suggest three abilities to assess. For each one, propose a small work sample, the evidence it could produce and a follow-up question. Explain what the exercise would still leave uncertain.
Check the plan against your work.
If the suggested exercise assumes a large platform team and you have four engineers, change it. If the AI adds services or requirements that your team would avoid, make that a question to explore.
The output is a draft for you to review. ProbeHaus uses this planning conversation to shape the assessment you see before you pay.
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