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Amen.

My interview questions eventually settled to having the candidate bring in a sample of their code and then teaching me how it worked.

We'd talk about what it did, what they thought they'd change to make it better, and so on.

Learned a ton really quickly and didn't waste anyone's time.

The last tech job I interviewed for they had me spend a lot of time working a sample application. When I thought about how many person hours were going into that across all the candidates, I immediately felt the company didn't have a sense of efficiency. Sure, it didn't cost them, but the fact they were fine just wasting time like that was telling.

Didn't get that job. But got a better one. :)



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