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These specific questions don’t help much in my opinion. I prefer asking questions that I know someone can’t game through studying some leetcode crap. - What wa

These specific questions don’t help much in my opinion. I prefer asking questions that I know someone can’t game through studying some leetcode crap. - What was the most difficult problem you’ve had to solve as a developer? They talk about it. You get some data, and you start asking more detailed questions about it for them to elaborate on. Soon you discover if they’re bullshitting, or at least what’s their “technical ceiling” based on what they considered the most difficult thing they’ve ever done. - Have you ever had a performance issue that you’ve had to debug. How did you go about finding the root cause? Etc. Basically nothing with a textbook answer. Just get them to talk and not be autistic about it. Surely if you know your craft you’d be able to suss out if this person can solve technical problems and get an idea about how they go about doing it. I really don’t care if you can invert a tree or have memorised The Art of Computer Programming… Will: Wood drastically -- Wood 'drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.' You got that from Vickers, 'Work in Essex County,' page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you...is that your thing? You come into a bar. You read some obscure passage and then pretend...you pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some girls and embarrass my friend? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f----n' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.

lostdog 4y ago
> What was the most difficult problem you’ve had to solve as a developer? They talk about it. ...and then you get accused of trying to steal secrets from their previous company. In seriousness, we're no longer allowed to ask questions like this in our current interview process, since it could expose us to competitors' internal secrets. It sucks, because it was one of the best ways of determining what a person was capable of. But there's no winning in designing an interview process--every one has flaws. Now I come up with a hypothetical problem in a related industry, but it's hard to tell whether the person is just failing to think through the problem, or was too unfamiliar with the domain to have useful ideas.

lostdog 4y ago

> What was the most difficult problem you’ve had to solve as a developer? They talk about it. ...and then you get accused of trying to steal secrets from their previous company. In seriousness, we're no longer allowed to ask questions like this in our current interview process, since it could expose us to competitors' internal secrets. It sucks, because it was one of the best ways of determining what a person was capable of. But there's no winning in designing an interview process--every one has flaws. Now I come up with a hypothetical problem in a related industry, but it's hard to tell whether the person is just failing to think through the problem, or was too unfamiliar with the domain to have useful ideas.