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You don't. You ask your candidates about what they have done in the past and let them talk. You don't want puzzle solvers, you want people who can do concrete,
by dozzie 10y ago
You don't. You ask your candidates about what they have done in the past and
let them talk. You don't want puzzle solvers, you want people who can do
concrete, useful things. If you want to check if the candidate knows about
a particular area, you just ask him/her about it and then dig a little deeper.
Of course you must know the area yourself, otherwise the judgement won't work
appropriately.
- probinso 10y agoDo you find that you are able to get sufficient information when limiting your material to the candidate's domain?
- dozzie 10y agoWhy do you think you can't ask candidate about what you need in this interview mode? Sure you can. Just don't expect he (let's stick with this pronoun) will know very much -- it's not his domain, he didn't work with that. What you get out of hearing the candidate talk about his past project(s) is the knowledge how he approached problems and if he actually completed anything worthwhile, even if it was internals refactoring and there was no thing visible outside.