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by atonse 433 days ago
I’ve been ruminating on what’s a good tech interview methodology since mine is good at finding junior programmers but not senior ones.

But what if we did a 2-3 hour pair programming session where we fix bugs in an open source project?

I think it would cover hard skills (actual coding), soft skills (git, reading and writing PRs) and address the “I don’t want to do free work for a company under the guise of an interview”

And so what if we use AI? Realistically, that’s how coding will be done anyway.

Thoughts? Has anyone tried this?

1 comments

Then you need to spend 2-3 hours per candidate... And the candidate with you. Do the same for 1 hour.