Cockroach Labs has restructured its engineering interview process to enhance fairness, reduce bias, and better reflect real-world engineering tasks. This overhaul, initiated in mid-2017, involved eliminating resumes, implementing exercise-based interviews, and open-sourcing the process on GitHub to familiarize candidates with the format. Traditional interviews, which heavily relied on real-time coding questions, have been replaced with a more consistent approach that includes take-home exercises, a reduced question repository for uniformity, and a "Choose Your Own" systems design question for deeper insights into a candidate's experience. These changes aim to provide stronger hiring signals, reduce intimidation, and ensure candidates face challenges similar to those they would encounter in their roles. While still in early stages, Cockroach Labs is collecting data and feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of these adjustments, hoping to inspire other companies to share and refine their hiring practices.