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Yeah, I do not think they are very useful. I know a lot of people, myself included, who perform worse than their true ability during interviews. It can be an an
by blt 9y ago
Yeah, I do not think they are very useful. I know a lot of people, myself included, who perform worse than their true ability during interviews. It can be an anxiety thing, but also some people just prefer to take their time and deliver solutions in writing vs. work things out in real time on a whiteboard.
I think a good alternative is to give the candidate a nontrivial project that should take around 8 hours, and pay them a day's wage to do it.
- speedplane 9y agoThat's better, but probably still not exactly indicative of real-world work... so much of on-the-job work is teamwork. Perhaps you could interview a group of candidates together and as a group assign a project that you know no one person could finish on their own, but would be manageable broken up. The people that form groups and work well together could presumably bubble up.
- blt 9y agoBut then if one candidate is an asshole, they ruin it for everyone...
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoI really like this approach. It’s not like you’re paid a salary to whiteboard pseudo code algorithms, after all.