mannekenpix

Thanks for the tip and the explanation!

Sorry, English is not my main language. I'm still learning.

I tend to follow the same pattern when I do the interviews. I agree that the technical part can be easily taught if the candidate has proper engineering foundation. But I still ask technical questions. But only on the technologies the candidate did put on his resume. I want to check if the candidate understood the technologies he used. After that I ask a more logical question. Not especially a real-life work problem. Like Sebastian Gebski says, it is more to see how the candidate reacts towards a problem and how he tries to solve it. I always start this exercise by saying to the candidate that there is no good or bad answers and that I want him to talk to me like if we were two colleagues trying to solve the same problem. And of course I help the candidate when he's stuck. The goal is also to assess his communication skills, which is a very understimated skills amongst developers.