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Re:How Google Hires by r00fus on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @03:32PM (#9336536)
I'd agree with everything but "alone". While having an interviewer (or more than one) staring at you while you solve a problem is unnerving, I'd also expect to be able to elicit requirements during the exercise, either before, during or near completion - because that's how it has always happened on my past assignments.

Do you let your interviewees reach out (possibly via IM) to your interviewers with specific questions?

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Re:How Google Hires by bengali3 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:17PM (#9336869)
Yes, we all have skype on our machines and I show them how to dial my phone extension if they need anything.

Edit: also for clarification, we discuss the problem ahead of time to make sure they understand it and ask any questions. For my group it's always a basic full stack problem. Here's a mockup and a basic install of visual studio and MSSQL, show me you can CRUD some data and present a decent UI. then we'll talk about how you did it.

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