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The disadvantage of that is that the interviewer no longer knows if the candidate actually solved the problem or if he got his CS roommate to solve it for him.
by umvi 8y ago
The disadvantage of that is that the interviewer no longer knows if the candidate actually solved the problem or if he got his CS roommate to solve it for him.
- toomanyrichies 8y agoIsn't that one of the reasons to ask follow-up questions like "why did you decide to use data structure X here instead of Y"? If the candidate didn't write the code, their lack of coherent answers should make that obvious pretty quickly.
- mcv 8y agoExactly. That's why you let them show their code to the other devs who get to ask questions. I don't believe someone who can't code can explain someone else's code in a convincing way.