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I have a question. When you hire complete freshers out of school, how do you interview them without asking for CS stuff? In my experience, fresh undergrads usua
by tamalsaha001 10y ago
I have a question. When you hire complete freshers out of school, how do you interview them without asking for CS stuff? In my experience, fresh undergrads usually do not have any real world experience.
I have experimented with short take home projects. This drastically reduces the available pool, since great freshers can get job in other places with whiteboards interview. Also, there is a sense that interview process is used to get people to do free work.
Also, non whiteboard interview processes are extremely time consuming. Non-whiteboards interviews will be better. But as a matter of practical experience, I have found it to be the only viable option for hiring fresh undergrads.
- dagw 10y agoAsk them what they studied and what their favorite courses where. Ask them what they found interesting. Ask them what kind of problems they can see themselves working on. Ask about what kind of projects they did and what they found easy and hard about them. Ask them some general programming questions. And by all means ask CS questions as well, but don't only ask that, and don't make them carry more weight than any other questions.
- tamalsaha001 10y agoYou will be surprised how often people with good grades will have good answer for these questions. But can't write dual for loops. I agree that asking people to write dynamic programming problems are not good interview questions. But if the job requires primarily writing code, I think it is fair to ask people to solve coding problems with loops, conditional statements, hashtables, etc.