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If you allow the candidate to do what they'd do at their desk you can ask more than trivial questions. Certainly, if they have to ping google to figure out how
by testbro 14y ago
If you allow the candidate to do what they'd do at their desk you can ask more than trivial questions. Certainly, if they have to ping google to figure out how to write fizzbuzz, that's a red flag, but it depends what the person spec is.
How many positions would you estimate (I'm an academic so have no experience) where encyclopedic and gap-less knowledge is required to accomplish a task? I envision a technical interview as an opportunity to make sure the candidate can actually do the task you need them to - the screening of non-programmers should be done beforehand.
- chollida1 14y ago> I envision a technical interview as an opportunity to make sure the candidate can actually do the task you need them to - the screening of non-programmers should be done beforehand. Ahh I see where we disagree, I might have read the blog post wrong. To me a phone interview is the actual screen. I'd never do an actual interview over the phone that was the basis for the final hire/no hire. If the OP means phone interview as the actual interview rather than a phone screen then yes, I'd certainly relax my position somewhat. usually for phone screens I'll open a shared google doc site and get the user to do a problem like fizz buzz.