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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by cpeterso on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:28PM (#16916794)
I like to pose technical problems that can scale to the candidate's level of experience. If I sense I'm hitting the candidate's comfort level, I can back off. Otherwise, I can take the problem even deeper with more technical questions. Either way the candidate still has a positive experience.
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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by humanrebar on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:29PM (#16917564)
This is my approach as well. Ask really easy questions and get more complicated as they do well. I also try to increase difficulty in line with the strengths espoused on their resumes. If they are fantastic with databases, I might make sure the problem can be solved well with a database oriented solution.
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