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Letting candidates to do actual coding on a computer.

• jonathankoren 8y ago
  Yeah, but that's also stupid. All to often it comes down to "Make standup a completly working client server system for this arbitrary problem from scratch in 30 minutes, starting... NOW!" You end up spending all your time dicking around with missed semicolons and looking up library routines and shit like that. Sure, it's all stuff you have to do as part of a job, but it's also all trivial stuff. The last time I had to do this, I spent time googling how to open up a port in python, and then read from stdin. It's just a waste of time. All this does is test the wrong things.
  • romaniv 8y ago
    Find a reasonably self-contained problem that doesn't involve too many interactions with the "environment". For example, ask the candidate to refactor an existing piece of code.
    • jonathankoren 8y ago
      Well the interviewee doesn't get to choose do they?