A *very* seasoned software engineer, I wrote my first basic game, a lunar landing game, in Basic in 1969. Currently I am doing web development in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Elm.
I become more and more convinced that these bad interview questions keep coming back because all interviewers are doing is parroting their own experience at being interviewed by people are parroting their own experience at being interviewed... you see where this is going.
In the past 2 decades, I've not been interviewed by anyone who has had any training in interviewing candidates, or conducting any sort of information gathering interview, it seems. Interviewing is a skill, it can be taught, practiced and learned, but the general practice seems to be just point at a few people to be the interview team and "hop to it".
Questions get asked because they've become pro-forma. Tricky questions, questions without answers, etc, all get asked without ever really pondering the question "why am I asking this question? what information am I really looking for that is going to help me decide if the person is going to be someone I want to hire?"
This is one of the reasons why software development is such a monoculture, and failing at diversity and inclusion.
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I become more and more convinced that these bad interview questions keep coming back because all interviewers are doing is parroting their own experience at being interviewed by people are parroting their own experience at being interviewed... you see where this is going.
In the past 2 decades, I've not been interviewed by anyone who has had any training in interviewing candidates, or conducting any sort of information gathering interview, it seems. Interviewing is a skill, it can be taught, practiced and learned, but the general practice seems to be just point at a few people to be the interview team and "hop to it".
Questions get asked because they've become pro-forma. Tricky questions, questions without answers, etc, all get asked without ever really pondering the question "why am I asking this question? what information am I really looking for that is going to help me decide if the person is going to be someone I want to hire?"
This is one of the reasons why software development is such a monoculture, and failing at diversity and inclusion.