Here's a heuristic: Instead of trying to find weaknesses of candidate, try to find their strengths. You will genuinely be surprised at what kind of amazing pro

Here's a heuristic: Instead of trying to find weaknesses of candidate, try to find their strengths. You will genuinely be surprised at what kind of amazing programmers are out there. I was recently rejected in a programming test because I designed my own implementation of a graph which was unlike the classical Graph class (containing addEdges(), findPath() etc.). If the interview heuristic was "trying to find his strengths" instead of "oh..there he goes. Doesn't know textbook implementation", I would actually be picked for being a smart programmer.