Retiring a Great Interview Problem
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code . The tech press sporadically publishes "best" interview questions that make me cringe — though I love the IKEA question . Startups like Codility and Interview Street see this challenge as an opportunity, offering hiring managers the prospect of outsourcing their coding interviews. Meanwhile, Diego Basch and others are urging us to stop subjecting candidates to whiteboard coding exercises . I don't have a silver bullet to offer. I agree that IQ tests and gotcha questions are a terrible way to assess software engineering candidates. At best, they test only one desirable attribute; at worst, they are a crapshoot as to whether a candidate has seen a similar problem or stumbles into the key insight. Coding questions are a much better tool for assessing people whose day job will be coding,Read full article from Retiring a Great Interview Problem
