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Sometimes I ask candidates to come up with a question for the interview, something that would allow them to put their best foot forward. Any thoughts on that?
by DenisM 9y ago
Sometimes I ask candidates to come up with a question for the interview, something that would allow them to put their best foot forward.
Any thoughts on that?
- DoofusOfDeath 9y agoI've never seen it done, but it sounds like there's potential. How has it played out when you've done that?
- DenisM 9y agoNot well. Candidates get disoriented and can't come up with anything relevant. It's a very small dataset though.
- tcarn 9y agoNever heard of it but what a great idea!
- roguecoder 9y agoThe question is really under-constrained and it's not clear what you are trying to figure out. I ask things like, "what's the most interesting bug you've encountered?" or "what have you been excited about learning recently?" to try to find a topic we can have a conversation about in a domain they are familiar with and interested in.
- DenisM 9y agoOh, I forgot to add - I actually ask for a coding task they think will put them in the best light. Like, "hey, I can balance a binary tree, let me show you". In my mind if someone learned something like this very well they show their learning potential, and complexity of the task will tell me their self-assessed level of development.