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by falsedan 3396 days ago
Why bother? You still fail to detect candidates who memorized the answer.

My standard coding question is a funny-looking prime sieve. If someone isn't familiar with one, we can work it through together and I'll have a much better idea of their learning potential & what they'll be like to work with than the intern straight out of their Algorithms final.

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Personally, I don't bother. I went the route of requesting candidates go through a work sample project that I spent a considerable amount of time trying to standardize across all the languages relevant to the role. In the end though, management wasn't for me, and so I ended changing roles for something non-managerial