> do we agree that asking loosely relevant trivia questions is not the most effective way to assess ability?
yeah. I been interviewing recently and the best interviews are those most like the job, where you either go in on-site and pair with some toy example, or get given some awful existing code and be given an amount of time to achieve a particular goal within that code.
The conversations that fall out of such exercises after they're completed are probably more valuable than the exercise itself.
yeah. I been interviewing recently and the best interviews are those most like the job, where you either go in on-site and pair with some toy example, or get given some awful existing code and be given an amount of time to achieve a particular goal within that code.
The conversations that fall out of such exercises after they're completed are probably more valuable than the exercise itself.