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Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
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Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#2By a written test, of course.
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#3Ideally a company would have an open source code base and very clear issues with tags. With this, any sufficiently good pull request would automatically get you the job (a pull request to an appropriately difficult issue).
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#4Sometimes, I'm just told there is a problem, here's a bit of code. Can I fix it? About 30 minutes later, I have a solution or I cry uncle.
If I don't have a solution, I have no work from the company.
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#5Programming. Blank file or modify something existing, I don’t really mind. Ideally something reasonably open-ended, though. Evaluation which emphasises results more than “ways of working” stuff.
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#6On a whiteboard solving classic algorithm puzzle problems that have nothing to do with the work I do... oh wait, wrong thread.
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#7I want the interview be a form similar to hackathon. Given a software request (or a topic), design and implement it within 8 hours.
For example, implementing a chat app.
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#8On a whiteboard solving classic algorithm puzzle problems that have nothing to do with the work I do... oh wait, wrong thread.
Ha! I've had to do a few of those recently. Unfortunately, they were the ones where you write code as the hiring manager watches.
Not a fan of those...
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#9Based on previous work experience, like-ability, references, and a take home exercise.
Re: Ask HN: Besides technical interviews, how would you want to be evaluated?
#10I enjoyed reading Thomas Ptacek's hiring post: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
I've never had an interview like that personally, but I have had interviews that were a bit more practical. Like instead of solving an algorithmic problem, it was: how would you lay out the database for a clone of popular website X, how would you handle stuff like pagination. Those are a bit less nervewracking than the typical "implement binary search in a chamber slowly filling with sand" interviews.