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The best interview I had was with my current employer. It was a half hour of discussion, some white boarding (just FizzBuzz), then an hour of "pair programming
by Osiris 12y ago
The best interview I had was with my current employer. It was a half hour of discussion, some white boarding (just FizzBuzz), then an hour of "pair programming". What was great is that the three of us sat together, I wrote the code, but we asked each other questions and talked through it. It felt more like a real world scenario than a test. It was relaxing and enjoyable.
I'm curious if anyone else has had the experience of a pair programming exercise for their interview?
- kasey_junk 12y agoI have done them, given them, and compared them to other interview techniques. I personally quite like them, but I like brain teasers, hostile phd style defenses and whiteboard "jam" sessions as well. My experience with them as a good tool in the hiring pipeline? Less compelling. Any work sample evaluation is better than techniques that don't involve work samples and pairing seems to pain less developers than on paper coding does. But unless you actively pair a lot during your day to day work, then paired programming is still fundamentally different than the kinds of work you are actually looking for and there are lots of developers who work poorly in paired environments.