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Or, in the context of an interview, thats also a skill on the part of interviewee, to ask these/similar questions that will help her/him get to the solution.
by neeleshs 14y ago
Or, in the context of an interview, thats also a skill on the part of interviewee, to ask these/similar questions that will help her/him get to the solution.
- sophacles 14y agoI find that slightly vague questions are actually helpful in interviews. In the real world, finding requirements and interpreting specs require these skills. So I will ask questions that can be understood a few ways to gauge the prospective hire's requirements gathering. This can backfire, and requires a bit of fluidity in the interviewer's part -- no cargo cult questions, just open problem solving. In a really good case, me being open to what the interviewee was saying about ambiguity led to a fascinating attempt to solve a different problem than I had originally structured, but we found out we work well together and solved a fun problem. At the same time he showed me his skills, and I showed him my skills. Result: both of us decided working together would be beneficial -- the best possible outcome of an interview (although just as good would be mutually deciding we wouldn't work well together and amicably parting ways).
- neeleshs 14y agoIndeed, though not as collaborative as your case, I've been intrigued by the variations of the original problem that evolved because of how both of us(candidate & me) probed the problem.