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Absolutely the best questions to ask in interviews, in my opinion, are open-ended questions. The problem with those, however, is that the interviewer himself ha
by weareconvo 13y ago
Absolutely the best questions to ask in interviews, in my opinion, are open-ended questions. The problem with those, however, is that the interviewer himself has to know enough to be able to correctly judge whether the candidate's answer is a reasonable one.
Not only that, there are fewer language barriers when asking some canned binary tree bullshit. So a Chinese programmer doing an interview who barely speaks English can still proudly ask the candidate some crap about Heapsort and feel like he's done his job well.
- swivelmaster 13y agoI've had some good luck with open-ended questions like "Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a scaling issue." How they define "scaling issue" often says just as much as their explanation as to how they solved it. I think I've had to ask for clarification a few times due to the interviewee answering the open-ended question with something I wasn't familiar with, but that's an excellent opportunity to gauge their explanatory skills anyway!