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by fjdbeb76 1420 days ago
I did this when I looked after interviews.

I'd print off a piece of legacy code that was particularly ugly and ask them to review it.

I'd tell them I wasn't looking for silly stuff like parser errors and instead was just looking for their opinion on the code. How they thought it worked and how they would improve or do it differently.

It was mostly just an interview prompt with a consistent starting point that lead to interesting insights about the interviewee but generally had repeated talking points across candidates.