If you haven't figured out what you need to know in 5 to 10 minutes of pair programming, you're doing it wrong. There's absolutely no reason to subject yoursel

If you haven't figured out what you need to know in 5 to 10 minutes of pair programming, you're doing it wrong. There's absolutely no reason to subject yourself or others to an interview that is over an hour long. When I conduct interviews, I make every effort to keep them to 15 minutes. If we end up chatting for longer than that, that's fine, but the planned and structured part of my interviews are no more than 15 minutes long. The way I look at it, if a company can't respect my time and can't optimize theirs, I don't want to work for them anyway.