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How much accurate data on a person can you reasonably get by putting them "under the gun" on a whiteboard? How are you filtering out those whose knowledge ends
by mtberatwork 11y ago
How much accurate data on a person can you reasonably get by putting them "under the gun" on a whiteboard? How are you filtering out those whose knowledge ends at the prep work they simply memorized beforehand? I find it more worthwhile to have real, in-depth conversations about code, software, infrastructure, etc. and walk through a few prior projects/code they can bring in and have to show. I find this far more insightful than barraging them with trivial coding exercises like fizzbuzz.
- jpollock 11y agoYou can't, any more than you can get accurate data about a person by talking to them. They both select for different groups. I understand that the research shows that the only truly accurate measure is working with someone for a week or two.