| Do you suggest to discriminate applicants based on their public activity? Do you suggest it's somehow more fair than a general question? Actually, yes. But that's just a matter of personal taste. Again if you think basic CS knowledge has nothing to do with your job that's on you. Hmm -- you keep coming back to this supposition, for some reason. And again, that's not at all what I was saying. Should add that I'm not really comfortable being grilled in any way on the interviews, it's not a very good dynamic. At least we're on the same basic page, then. The main difference I guess is that (1) I see the issue of maintaining "dynamic" -- the overall tone of bilateral respect, in the interview process -- as not just important, but very important, arguably crucial in fact; (2) dynamic aside, the "quiz-show" approach is rife with methodological weaknesses (for example, it highly favors those who cram on the material - or were simply lucky, and happened to have heard your questions before in there interview process); and (3) I find it quite easy to assess ballpark competence in tech folks (and to find red flags for incompetence) just from unprompted, regular discussion. But again, that's me, not you. You can apply whatever filters you like. Like Steve Jobs said (in a different, but related context) ultimately either they'll work or they won't -- and everything will sort itself out. |