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by chiph
4648 days ago
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Right - the question is pretty open ended, with lots of potential areas to explore after getting a basic answer. As a potential employer, I'm happy to help them learn, but I'm not going to spoon-feed them. If someone is profoundly incurious, maybe they'd be better off working somewhere else. Or in another career field. |
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Good to go with open ended questions. It's hard for candidates to memorize answers.
Sadly i see lots of these kinds of idiotic strategies on their part :-)
When i started my first company in 95 or thereabouts, i remember a person who just would not open his mouth during the entire interview. I didn't know what to make of him. I then asked my receptionist to talk to him, find out if i was being too rough or intimidating etc.
Turns out that the interviewee did not trust his own command over english enough to answer back.
Once i learned that, i just handed him a free PC, told him to try writing whatever program he wanted in the next few hours and did not set any time limits.
When i came back after lunch, i saw that he had written a complete game ( This was in the DOS days where writing a game was really difficult since there were no high-level game engines around )
The guy eventually turned out to be one of my best programmer.