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I do the discussion approach, but my goal is to make sure I 'give candidates enough rope to hang themselves'. I also make extremely clear that it's ok to tell m

I do the discussion approach, but my goal is to make sure I 'give candidates enough rope to hang themselves'. I also make extremely clear that it's ok to tell me that they don't know or aren't sure. A lot of times, I never ask the question that makes someone look bad, I just let them talk. No interview system is good, but after cycling through many interview styles, this is the one I have found to be the least bad. On a side note, I also can't believe tools like hackerrank report if a candidate has alt-tabbed out of the browser. I'm nearly 20 years in and I still have to look up basic syntax.

FalconSensei 5y ago
In my company we use hackerrank for the coding interviews, but more as a whiteboard, since we are not doing in-person interviews anymore. We say that syntax is not the most important thing, we are not going to run the code, and that anything they would usually check on google/SO, they can just ask us.
quercusa 5y ago
I usually pick some topic to do a deep dive on; I want to hear someone say "I don't know." If they can't or won't do that and just try to fill in with BS - that's a really bad sign.