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by artichokeheart 2498 days ago
Candidates should just be given a horrible, undocumented, broken piece of legacy code and asked to fix it. Select the person who comes up with the quickest solution. That's who you want on your team when you find out there's a production issue at 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon.
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I would love this kind of interview. This basically describes my job.