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Re:The Engineer Crunch by mason55 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:50PM (#7260947)
We've had success with this approach with outside recruiters. Generally the recruiters aren't skilled enough to coach a candidate on the tasks. But in the case that they are, one of the components of the onsite interview is a code review of the code the candidate wrote. This usually includes me challenging design decisions and then changing up requirements and asking how the code would change. So even if a candidate WERE to be coached by an recruiter, the candidate would have to really understand the code they wrote and why they wrote it.
Re:The Engineer Crunch by eru on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @12:15AM (#7261937)
If the recruiter can coach the candidate, you should hire the recruiter to program for you.
Re:The Engineer Crunch by gaius on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:16AM (#7262447)
They don't need to be skilled. They just need to debrief the people they send you post-interview.