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I've tried trick programming questions when I started interviewing coders, the SNR was simply awful and it was frustrating for me and the candidates. Any evalu

I've tried trick programming questions when I started interviewing coders, the SNR was simply awful and it was frustrating for me and the candidates. Any evaluation system have to be calibrated on a large enough pool of candidates, when you're building a company and start interviewing you don't really have the luxury of wasting the first dozens applications. Today I tend to completely avoid programming questions, except to reject complete newbies.

tasty_freeze 7y ago
Since I work from home, I haven't had to do interviews in a long time, but back when I did, I did always ask one programming question, but it would be only one step harder than trivial. I'd say use whatever language you want, even make one up, so long as you can explain parts where I might have questions. I didn't care about syntax, or performance, or cleverness -- just does it work. If they can't do that, you don't want them for a coding position.