How to Pass a Programming Interview

Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by rurban on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @08:37AM (#11252847)

As an interviewer I only look at the resume and published open source projects the candidate did. Everything else just a random impression, nothing serious to bother. The questions are for something else.

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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by autotune on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:07PM (#11254118)

I like this approach the most. Evaluate code that they've already written, maybe make sure that they can solve a similar problem to make sure they actually understand what they did and didn't pay someone else to do it, and then a personality fit. Chances are if they really wanted to be hired to learn how to program they're aware of the importance of contributing to open source.

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Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview by nsxwolf on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:39PM (#11255234)

This is frustrating for the many engineers who have no open source work. You're shutting out a massive amount of talent that has only worked on proprietary software.

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