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by StringEpsilon 3379 days ago
We do technical interviews on conceptual levels. One manager, one HR, one programmer (not always all three at the same time) and the interviewee.

We ask them about their experience with the tech we use / plan to use and test what they tell us with specific questions. If you tell us you know ASP.NET, I might ask you to describe the default routing or some specifics about razor views. If you tell me you are a git expert, I might ask you about interactive rebases and cherry-picking to find out when and how you'd use them.

General know-how is usually more viable than the ability to write working code in a pinch. The closest thing to a whiteboard test we have is giving you a page of code to ask you what's wrong with it (although, we don't do that often).