[vandyswa]

I've done the equivalent of this by asking them to describe an interesting bug they've encountered in past lives; how it came up, how they hunted it, how they fixed it. By listening to them describe the work, asking questions, and following their thought processes, you can come to a fairly good hire/no from this single walk-through.

I know, it's short and humane, so not a good fit for current Sillycon Valley culture.

[sensanaty]

I straight up lie and make something up for these "tell me about a time..." type questions

Unless it was literally a week ago, I work on too many things to ever remember anything, and for me it's just a fact of the work that I'll be fixing bugs or whatever the questions asks. Nothing stands out, because I don't consider any of them to be some sort of special occasion worth keeping track of

[sk11001]

There’s no chance that I can come up with a good bug story on demand without any preparation.

[serpix]

compare this with the technical interview bomb of demanding you write a full blown program right fuking now, complete with tests. Which one do you prefer?

[2rsf]

I prefer to describe a bug in details, but it is hard to come up with the details on the fly without prior preparation

[burnished]

Writing the program. Recalling a bug for the purpose of impressing a stranger does not sound fun.

[tdeck]

For past experience I reviews like this it's a good idea to give the candidate advance notice.

[izacus]

Ok, but why do you think you should be hired in that place though? :)

[FabHK]

Agreed. It's a great interview question. For a story-telling position.

[Lvl999Noob]

Live bug squash is better, imo. I was part of the production support at my $DAYJOB. My work was literally finding and squashing bugs all day. And yet, if you were to ask me for interesting stories, I won't be able to tell you anything. Maybe I'll remember the latest bug I solved but most of the time, once the bug is resolved, its off my mind. I will have to go through my jira and github history to first see which bugs I even worked on, then filter for the interesting ones and then try to remember the story instead of just the root cause.

[IshKebab]

Ugh "tell us about a time" questions. I'm so glad the tech industry generally doesn't do that nonsense.

If you do get asked these questions just lie.