[nailer]

Phone screen logarithmically.

- Ask a level 1 question

- Follow with a level 10 question of they get it right

- Follow with a level 1000 question you don't know the answer to if they get that right too.

If you learn something from them in their level 1000 answer that's a strong hire!

Also: there are bad programmers at Google, there probably are at FB too. There are some brilliant ones but don't take it for granted.

[mrits]

Wouldn't that be exponential and not logarithmic?

[nailer]

It would but it's too late for me to delete the comment! #facepalm

[estomagordo]

Dude,

You failed the level 1 question.

[nailer]

lol I did. Never HN when fatigued.