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It's a tough problem, but eventually you have to demonstrate some sort of competency. White board, open source contributions, homework. There has to be some w
by aantix 6y ago
It's a tough problem, but eventually you have to demonstrate some sort of competency. White board, open source contributions, homework. There has to be some way of demonstrating you know what you are doing.
I'm a consultant so I've been through tons of interviews at this point in my career (21+ years).
If I had my choice? I'd pair program with my potential teammates on a bug/feature for the product I'd be working on.
Give me something real that's been in the backlog for a while, and we'll pair on it for the allotted time.
- avrionov 6y agoThis sounds good, but it will not work for many jobs. Fixing a bug in a code base that you don't recognize is more difficult that a well defined coding problem. Candidates will be limited to the technologies and problems which they are already familiar. This approach has some value, but it can't be the only way to evaluate candidates.