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mikeash
10y ago
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Why ask technical questions
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the skill you want to see, when you could just ask for a demonstration of that skill?
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orng
10y ago
Because asking a few quick questions doesn't waste 8 hours of your candidates time.
mikeash
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10y ago
A quick coding problem doesn't have to take that long either. I agree that asking for a (relatively) huge project is the wrong way to go about it, but it doesn't have to be huge.
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