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by akudha
1593 days ago
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I was given access to the code base (old, quite bad code base), shown a smallish bug and asked to fix it. Was left alone. Took me half hour or so to fix it. They made an offer. No stupid syntax questions. No dumb questions like “where do you see yourself in 5 years, what is your strength” etc. In fact, the only question they asked was how soon can I start, if they hired me. Obviously this style won’t work in every case. But for that particular role, it was perfect. It also has the huge advantage to the interviewee, as he can see the code base for himself and decide if he really wants to work with it. |
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They had a snippet of C++ code, and were giving-out mugs to anyone who could find "the" bug in the code
I'm not a dev, don't even play on on TV, but I really "came of age" writing C++ back in the 90s
I spotted the other bug in the function on the paper - the one the guy who had written and printed it out hadn't noticed he'd added
He asked me if I want to come work for them as a QA/debug engineer - which I politely declined (the money was good, but didn't want to relo to central OH (having just recently moved already))