Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ...
by brongondwana on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:55AM
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Yeah, but at this point you're not left with many other options other than sticking your finger in the air and hoping you can detect if they know how to write code.
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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ...
by EugeneOZ on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:30AM
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Only if you are limiting yourself by the options mentioned by the top comment author :) I was interviewed many times without showing any of my code. The most effective way I saw: the interviewer gives you some code and asks you how you could refactor it, what parts you would implement differently.
Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ...
by brongondwana on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:05AM
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To be fair, my "interview" for Fastmail was debugging a real production issue in realtime with one of the founders.