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I find this one short and useful: "so you know language X and Y, can you compare some features between them that you like and dislike?". If they get into deep c

I find this one short and useful: "so you know language X and Y, can you compare some features between them that you like and dislike?". If they get into deep comparisons about the tradeoffs between type safety, state, maintainability, multithreading, undefined behaviour, functional vs OO, libraries etc. that's a good indicator to me.

estomagordo 8y ago
+1 I've been asked this question in interviews on more than one occasion. I find it gives me a good opportunity to show off some knowledge, and with a good interviewer, it's a very good conversation starter for something that can end up being quite deep diving.