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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by robocop on Friday October 26, 2012 @08:22PM (#4704864)
I don't think this approach would scale, due to the time investment required. It also suffers from making it hard to compare one candidate to another in a fair way, unless you have everyone fix the same bugs. Having a bunch of canned bugs to be fixed doesn't seem much better than asking a CS puzzle.
Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by Evbn on Saturday October 27, 2012 @12:11AM (#4705328)
I Lways ask people to slave a simplified version of an actual problem I have worked on recently. Some times I even learn some thing.

Comparing candidates is irrelevant. You just want N hires that can contribute in your environment.