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Re:An open-source collection of interview questions by arethuza on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:16AM (#19756042)
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask something like "What's your strategy for source control?" - not everyone uses git for everything and even if they do there is plenty to talk about.
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Re:An open-source collection of interview questions by neilv on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:20AM (#19756065)
Good point; the question could be, "What source control do you use?" Or ask about unit testing, CI, deployment, etc.
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Re:An open-source collection of interview questions by arethuza on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:25AM (#19756077)
If asking something like that you may want to carefully ask how widely adopted the policies they mentioned actually are....
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Re:An open-source collection of interview questions by smudgymcscmudge on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:46AM (#19756855)
β€œYes. We do have a unit test. An intern wrote it last summer.”
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Re:An open-source collection of interview questions by arethuza on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:12AM (#19758331)
"We think he ran it, but he left" ;-)
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