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I’d like to come up with a series of interview questions to evaluate whether someone can interpret error messages and ask reasonable questions regarding them.
by macintux 4y ago
I’d like to come up with a series of interview questions to evaluate whether someone can interpret error messages and ask reasonable questions regarding them.
Too many technicians seem to freeze up as soon as they seem an error message.
- mdaniel 4y agoAnd the opposite bank of questions: > given this code, how would you return errors to an internal audience? How would you change the errors if you knew the error was going to be presented to the end user? Because for sure crafting actionable errors is a life-skill I want to rage close PRs that contain throw new Exception("cannot query")