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I'd ask the candidate to pair program with a developer for a week. You'll know immediately if the candidate can integrate with the team. Plus it'll reveal his k
by liangzan 17y ago
I'd ask the candidate to pair program with a developer for a week. You'll know immediately if the candidate can integrate with the team. Plus it'll reveal his knowledge during the session.
- chris123 17y agoCould be wrong, but I think the question was "what interview questions?" The interview is, for argument's sake, the second screen (the first one being the review of the cover letter/email and resume/cv or whatever). The third screen might be an audition or trial, such as you've described.
- silentbicycle 17y agoRight. This is to filter out people before they waste whole days of your teams' time.
- myoung8 17y agoI wish I had the time to sit down with every candidate and program with them for a week :) Unfortunately, none of us do, so I'm looking to come up with a handful of questions that can effectively weed out the inexperienced from the experienced as early as possible in the hiring process.
- myoung8 17y agoThey don't necessarily have to be questions like "How does routing work in Rails?", they could be "interactive" questions that involve writing a relatively small amount of code (e.g. write a Generator to do X).