> If you give technical interviews, I implore you: when the candidate asks what you want from them, don't be coy or sneaky about it with the justification that

> If you give technical interviews, I implore you: when the candidate asks what you want from them, don't be coy or sneaky about it with the justification that figuring it out is part of the interview. Tell the candidate what you want. Man, this is so true. I've had great conversations in interviews where it was stated up-front that the goal was to cooperatively dig into ambiguous specifications. This is (often) an actual part of working as an developer. Speaking with someone who's being deliberately vague about what they want is not, unless that's what you think of people "on the business side," in which case you've got a bizarre understanding of how this industry works that would be a big red-flag for me as a potential colleague.