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by flimsypremise
1148 days ago
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I keep seeing people claim that no one offers alternatives to live coding in interviews, but not only does the author provide an alternative (take home coding test/project), there are obviously many alternatives to live coding. I've been working in this industry for over two decades, and I've interviewed more candidates than I can count. I can assess a candidate with a 20 minute conversation, because a candidate's understanding of the context and theory of how and why things are done the way they are determine how good they are at the job. Ask them what happens when you visit a website. The amount of detail they go into, and what details they focus on, will tell you an enormous amount about them. Ask them whether they prefer an OO or functional approach to organizing code. The good candidates will have thorough, well-thought out opinions, and you're handing the bad candidates enough rope to hang themselves. Of course, in order to be able to assess the answers to these questions in an effective way, you need to be able to very knowledgeable yourself, and that's the real root of the problem here. |
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