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Coding interviews are effective (pcloadletter.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But how do you handle candidates who say something like "look, there's heaps of code that I'm proud of and would love to walk you through, but it's all work I've done for past companies and don't have access (or the legal right) to show you?"

It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks. Do you give them any ideas or guidance as to what they should whip up? Or just leave it totally open-ended for them to figure out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I always left it open-ended and that seemed to work. Part of the interview was seeing what they'd come up with. I'm pretty sure people always brought things they'd already written.