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Discussion on: How I Evaluate You in a Code Interview

 
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Artur Neumann

That is roughly what we are doing at JankariTech.
The candidate has to work on a programming exercise (btw. we don't care about syntax, the IDE will help you to place the brackets at the right place, nor do we expect the candidate to have a complete solution at the end of the time)
After the programming the candidate comes to the interviewer and explains what she/he had done, what other ideas she had and what would have been the next steps.
We hope that gives a good chance to people who can talk easy, but also to those who first have to think in isolation.

I personally develop ideas while talking, so I find it very easy to 'discuss' with my self, but I know a lot if people who are different. I feel a lot of Western cultures give an unfair advantage to rather chatty people.

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath • Edited

Nice practice.

I am fine with folks developing ideas while talking but I doubt what one talks about while thinking would make sense or seem coherent to many others. Trying to make sure that the talking is sensible+coherent takes away the focus from the task of thinking.