>Is a prospective employer supposed to suss this out entirely through verbal questions? Yes It's really not that hard to ask questions that evaluate a candida

>Is a prospective employer supposed to suss this out entirely through verbal questions? Yes It's really not that hard to ask questions that evaluate a candidate's ability without devolving into trivia Programming is merely logical thought converted into a terse form that a computer can execute Ask how to solve a problem; ask what needs to be considered to solve it; ask what corner cases does the initial answer not cover; ask for something like a confidence interval on how likely you think errors will happen (and how you plan to respond to them); ask how the program needs to change when you convert it from a cgi-bin/ C program to Ruby or PHP or Go; ask how a solution looks different in any two of the languages the candidate knows/likes Would you only hire a surgeon after they demonstrate an appendectomy? Would you hire a mechanic only after they demonstrate building a transmission from spare parts?