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Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software devel...
on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:11PM (#9759287)
That sounds like a good way to set expectations for communication and introduce the interviewee to the way your team respects each other.
Some teams are like "Man, what idiot wrote this code! This is garbage!" (sometimes in other words). I can imagine they couldn't do the type of interview you're doing.
In your interview, you show them some bad code, ask them to change it, and if they start disparaging whoever wrote it, you can red card them before they start dragging down team morale.
Or, if they start wondering about 'how did this code get like this? are there other issues leading to the bad code?' they've got some strengths in areas outside of development.