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"you would be silly not to include some form of practical test" Yes, I'm coming to the realisation that it's idealistic to assume that anyone with N years expe
by dasboth 11y ago
"you would be silly not to include some form of practical test"
Yes, I'm coming to the realisation that it's idealistic to assume that anyone with N years experience will be at a certain level of ability.
"(potential) is best measured by talking with them about a project they really cared about"
I agree. I've always thought that once you've made sure that a candidate's programming knowledge isn't fabricated, the best way to evaluate them is to get talking about code. Whether that's proprietary code they've written but can't share, or it's on a GitHub profile for all to see shouldn't make a huge difference.
- cdibona 11y agoOne of the best interviews I 'gave' was when the interview was for a position programming on a topic I knew almost nothing about. I had the person bring their laptop and walk me through their implementation of the topic at hand, then asked how they'd scale/improve it given more cpu/memory/etc and what kind of constraints the larger environment would impose upon the work. It was super neat. Totally hired that person.