Re:How to Interview Engineers
by deathanatos on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:54PM
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> In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing environment makes for an obtuse and off-putting experience, all around.
And how would I use that, as an interviewer, in a phone screen, realistically?
(I don't believe that I could — reliably — get them into a Google Hangout, for example.)
(We used https://coderpad.io/ ; it was alright, and certainly better than Google Docs.)
Google Docs are horrible coding environments. In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing environment makes for an obtuse and off-putting experience, all around. I mean, yeah, the candidate can suck it up and make it work if they felt they "had" to. But on balance it's just unnecessary mental gymnastics -- and completely avoidable source of awkwardness and all around unpleasantness in the interview experience.