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In my experience, a lot of interviewers will ask questions along the lines of "What's the trickiest problem you've had to deal with?" I feel like those kinds of
by chc 9y ago
In my experience, a lot of interviewers will ask questions along the lines of "What's the trickiest problem you've had to deal with?" I feel like those kinds of questions are excellent for bringing up this sort of thing if the candidate is so inclined. If they go in a different but still not disappointing direction (e.g. coming up with a process for stable development an environment where requirements are constantly changing), you might re-ask with the focus more on problems encountered while coding.
- laurentl 9y agoAnd, to paraphrase another poster, be a honey badger about it. "And then what happened? And then? Why did you do it this way? Why did that fail? Why did <cause of failure> happen?" until you get to the bottom of the story or hit a wall ("dunno. My boss took care of that"). If the candidate can explain what the root cause of the problem was, how they identified that root cause and then proceeded to fix it, that gives you a pretty good idea of how tenacious they are.