Finner, Doug wrote:
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so, hand them some of your existing code (good examples and not so good)
and ask them to figure out what it does and recommend changes.
Most definitely. This position isn't going to really require the person
to write their own apps. Most of the stuff he/she will be doing is
maintaining code already in place. Plenty of it will be my code, but
prior to me starting here three years ago, they used to just get people
on a contract basis, and there's some pretty messed up code. They even
contracted a job out to a couple of Russian programmers; code's pretty
clean, but all the comments are in Russian. ;) I like the idea of
giving them a piece of our existing code and getting them to do
something with it...I'll just have to get HR to accept my word on how
they did on it (they really want a question and answer sheet that they
can 'grade').
I really really like the 'give them a problem and have them solve it'
idea...
Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
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