I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by davidgerard on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @05:57PM (#8332603)

The test I describe should take an hour or two - it's a test of "can you actually do these things your CV claims you can?" Which is nontrivial, but I enjoyed taking it (fix a broken thing!) and feel fine about giving it to others.

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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by FLUX-YOU on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @10:05PM (#8333279)

>"can you actually do these things your CV claims you can?"

Yeah but how many questions must you ask before you are certain? Otherwise you're rolling the dice that the candidate has simply seen that problem before but has terrible habits otherwise.

Reduce the time required and you risk more false positives. Increase the time required, and you risk the skilled ignoring you.

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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by vonmoltke on Thursday September 18, 2014 @10:30AM (#8335365)

Since I think companies are overall hurting themselves with hypersensitivity to false positives, I vote for the former.

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