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Re:On Interviewing Programmers by donw on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:57PM (#23775963)
The best programmer interviews I have ever underwent -- as a candidate -- were almost identical to "doing real work".

Either because we actually did real work -- the interview was literally "work with us for a day and see how you like it" -- or because the interview process primarily centered around exploring problems in a wide solution space, collaboratively with the interviewers.

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Re:On Interviewing Programmers by malechimp on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:21AM (#23779850)
That probably is the best but there's no time for most people to do that as they try to offload the interviews outside workhours.
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