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I think the days of on-site interviews with whiteboard tests may be drawing to a close faster than you suspect
by bensyverson 6mo ago
I think the days of on-site interviews with whiteboard tests may be drawing to a close faster than you suspect
- m00dy 6mo agoI also think we will never go back to good old days.
- dylan604 6mo agoIt'll put the "everything old becomes new again" idea to the test.
- JSR_FDED 6mo agoHuh, I’m 100% going to interview this way the next time I have to hire an engineer. I can’t think of a better way to get a sense of how a candidate reasons about things, and of their values - do they have a sense of responsibility, conscientiousness, team fit. All other things that could be LLM-mediated have no more signal.
- andsoitis 6mo ago> I can’t think of a better way to get a sense of how a candidate reasons about things Some ideas to help you: ask the candidate something underspecified and watch what they do first. Do they ask clarifying questions, make their assumptions explicit? After they answer ask what would change their mind, where does that break down? Pick a topic they know and ask them to explain it to a smart non-engineer. Make them estimate something they can’t look up (forces them to decompose, bound, and calibrate). Once they’ve proposed a solution to a question, change the constraints to see if they can adapt or whether they’re stuck. What you want to evaluate is dynamic reasoning, adaptability.
- z0r 6mo agoIs this implying that you don't believe people will hire programmers anymore?
- jhayward 6mo agoWell, there is a long tradition of "testing" developer candidates by asking them to exhibit skills in tasks that they never, ever, do in their work. Like whiteboard coding. It doesn't have a great success record. I personally would rather they exhibited expert skills in using tools, and expressing their design insight as a part of that skillset.