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I would probably walk away from an interview (if I ever have to do one again) with such questions. I would not be interested to work in an environment using th

I would probably walk away from an interview (if I ever have to do one again) with such questions. I would not be interested to work in an environment using that kind of filter to let people in.

aaron695 13y ago
And I'd guess the work place wins by far out of that deal. A professional person knows for starters the interview is not necessarily the job, especial the kinda person who bases it on one question is not something you'd want to touch with a 10 foot pole. In many companies HR will be doing the interview, or even one level of it. You have no idea what the team might be like. Even all that said it's a fun question that I'd like to try, it say a lot about people who won't attempt something fun and unusual.
- shin_lao 13y ago
  To me, it says more about the company, and I wouldn't like to work in that kind of company. Basically these questions are made to make the interviewer look clever while not assessing any relevant skill. I've been far more often an interviewer than and interviewee and I never ask that kind of question.
  - aaron695 13y ago
    But what do you ask? You can't do fuzzbuzz for an hour. I'm sure I can show you a study that shows some of your questions are wrong. It's one question, at the end of the day every question can probably in isolation be said to be wrong. While they are answering a question like this you see many things, how the handle stress, how they handle something they don't know, how they communicate the solution or ask questions. We all know this question is not meant to be solved right? That bit's not rocket science. It's about how people tackle hard/impossible stuff they don't know. If you answer a question you don't know the solution to by walking out of the room, that to me is a fail and a good test. If they try and get defensive that to me means they are not good team players and won't ever ask for help. How else does one see if they are a team play in an interview? It's easy to bag the questions but people aren't really coming up with supposed solutions.
    - shin_lao 13y ago
      - FizzBuzz like question to eliminate a candidate that cannot code - Technical questions according to the seniority level of the candidate - I ask the candidate to solve a problem we are currently working on - During the whole process check for cultural/managerial fit
bsaul 13y ago
carefull with that line of reasonning though. i had one candidate that self destructed with this behavior. he didn't like my questions, and did very poorly on the test ( which i warned him before was very specific, and i knew didn't pretend to assess completely his skills). but the talk i had with him before that convinced me that he was still an interesting candidate. what happened was, even before i told him anything, the guy decided he wanted to stop the interview. In the case of that guy, the tests showed that he took failure in a very very bad way.
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- moron4hire 13y ago
  Or maybe he realized he didn't like you.

I would probably walk away from an interview (if I ever have to do one again) with such questions. I would not be interested to work in an environment using that kind of filter to let people in.

aaron695 13y ago

And I'd guess the work place wins by far out of that deal. A professional person knows for starters the interview is not necessarily the job, especial the kinda person who bases it on one question is not something you'd want to touch with a 10 foot pole. In many companies HR will be doing the interview, or even one level of it. You have no idea what the team might be like. Even all that said it's a fun question that I'd like to try, it say a lot about people who won't attempt something fun and unusual.

shin_lao 13y ago
To me, it says more about the company, and I wouldn't like to work in that kind of company. Basically these questions are made to make the interviewer look clever while not assessing any relevant skill. I've been far more often an interviewer than and interviewee and I never ask that kind of question.
- aaron695 13y ago
  But what do you ask? You can't do fuzzbuzz for an hour. I'm sure I can show you a study that shows some of your questions are wrong. It's one question, at the end of the day every question can probably in isolation be said to be wrong. While they are answering a question like this you see many things, how the handle stress, how they handle something they don't know, how they communicate the solution or ask questions. We all know this question is not meant to be solved right? That bit's not rocket science. It's about how people tackle hard/impossible stuff they don't know. If you answer a question you don't know the solution to by walking out of the room, that to me is a fail and a good test. If they try and get defensive that to me means they are not good team players and won't ever ask for help. How else does one see if they are a team play in an interview? It's easy to bag the questions but people aren't really coming up with supposed solutions.
  - shin_lao 13y ago
    - FizzBuzz like question to eliminate a candidate that cannot code - Technical questions according to the seniority level of the candidate - I ask the candidate to solve a problem we are currently working on - During the whole process check for cultural/managerial fit

bsaul 13y ago

carefull with that line of reasonning though. i had one candidate that self destructed with this behavior. he didn't like my questions, and did very poorly on the test ( which i warned him before was very specific, and i knew didn't pretend to assess completely his skills). but the talk i had with him before that convinced me that he was still an interesting candidate. what happened was, even before i told him anything, the guy decided he wanted to stop the interview. In the case of that guy, the tests showed that he took failure in a very very bad way.

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moron4hire 13y ago
Or maybe he realized he didn't like you.