My favorite coding question to give candidates (and why)

in question •  last year 

Now, disclaimer: all coding interview questions are terrible, including mine. You have 45 minutes to make a hire/nohire recommendation that could change somebody’s life. People are never themselves: it’s stressing, they are exhausted and there is an artificial time limit. The questions are contrived to fit within the timeframe and get specific signals. I tend to favor easier questions that lead to a high quality conversation where I can learn about the way somebody thinks. The conversation is much more important to me than the actual lines of code my candidate writes on the whiteboard. What tradeoffs exist? How do you balance between them? As an interviewer, it’s on ME to know how to help my candidate have a good experience, when to guide, and when to probe, and how to calibrate my expectations for an artificial setting.

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