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There was a good article that popped up on here a couple months ago about this: "Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry". [1] If you're asking candida
by jakelazaroff 8y ago
There was a good article that popped up on here a couple months ago about this: "Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry". [1]
If you're asking candidates to balance a binary search tree when no one in the history of your company has ever had to do that, you're asking the wrong questions.
[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/177.html
- danpalmer 8y agoYep. Which is why we don’t. We do a mock technical meeting with multiple members of our tech team and the candidate presenting options, talking through pros and cons, etc. Much of the interview is about assessing communication rather than technical skills. The interview is basically a standard tech meeting that we hold regularly in the team to discuss designs of new projects.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoSorry — that comment was meant in support of yours, with the "you" being generic :)