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Merely knowing I'm doing it wrong isn't actionable. In addition, I need to know what to change to do it right.
by recursive 3y ago
Merely knowing I'm doing it wrong isn't actionable. In addition, I need to know what to change to do it right.
- rvnx 3y agoYou can ask for precise details about the implementation or the weirdest bug they had encountered. Great tech guys are able to explain to you complex systems quite easily; not by making them overly complex, but quite the opposite, to keep them simple, and regarding the bug you can understand the depth of troubleshooting the person went through.
- recursive 3y agoI do ask questions like this. You might be surprised to learn that there are a fair number of candidates who can answer stuff like this, but really struggle to write any code at all. I'm not totally sure how to account for it.