I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Agreed, this is a great way to get some insight into how the candidate thinks, and it’s also arguably a better way to be sure that they understand the language than all these coding tests people do (it’s not hard to learn to write code in a language, but it’s often quite challenging to learn to recognize good code in a language and understand how to improve upon bad code to make it better).
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Agreed, this is a great way to get some insight into how the candidate thinks, and it’s also arguably a better way to be sure that they understand the language than all these coding tests people do (it’s not hard to learn to write code in a language, but it’s often quite challenging to learn to recognize good code in a language and understand how to improve upon bad code to make it better).