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> Lots of eye scanning while looking above the window they’d been typing into. Are you expecting people to not reference external material, such as documentati
by 7734128 2y ago
> Lots of eye scanning while looking above the window they’d been typing into.
Are you expecting people to not reference external material, such as documentation or syntax, and only code from memory?
- colinb 2y agoAbsolutely not. In my standard intro material I explicitly say otherwise, tell them that actual work involves checking external references, and that I want the interview to be as near to a collaborative experience as it can be in the odd circumstances. I also tell them that they should tell me when they're checking external resources (the CPP reference is what I mostly have in mind, but StackOverflow or whatever is fine with me) so that I understand how they go about solving problems. Because that's the actual important bit. All the coding and the questioning is a proxy for that.