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We're Hiring Engineers All Wrong. Here's How HuffPost Evolved
- kuni-toko-tachi 11y agoWhiteboard exercises, homework, and pair programming are ridiculous ways to test a candidate. Code samples tell me more about an engineer than absurd and contrived and time pressured tests that have no relationship to how real engineers solve problems.
- acjohnson55 11y agoThose are tricky though. What if someone doesn't have readily shareable code? I'd argue that if you really deconstruct how you would be evaluating a persons' code, you can probably get the same information by thoughtful questions.