Re:Ask YC: Does interviewing developers leave you depressed?
by Flemlord on Thursday August 13, 2009 @03:58AM
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> Note to self: start asking candidates to write SQL in interviews.
Heh. Quite a few people (~20%) take the attitude of the parent poster, saying they're not solid on SQL since they've been using ORMs for a while. So I ask them to write the same select in LINQ or their ORM language of choice. Not a single one has been able to do it.
Heh. Quite a few people (~20%) take the attitude of the parent poster, saying they're not solid on SQL since they've been using ORMs for a while. So I ask them to write the same select in LINQ or their ORM language of choice. Not a single one has been able to do it.