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Similarly I've found that talking through some deliberately broken code, and what improvements could be made to it, gives a good idea of what a candidate would
by vinw 11y ago
Similarly I've found that talking through some deliberately broken code, and what improvements could be made to it, gives a good idea of what a candidate would be like to work with on real problems. It's more about the discussion than the code changes they come up with!
- cwilkes 11y agoAgree 100% especially since that's most of the daily job is fixing up old code that was written in a hurry or for a different circumstance. The ability to see what some code was trying to do and how to fix it and make it extendable and or understandable for future generations is invaluable.