in reply to An Interview Quandry

You notice on the way in that the code now on the whiteboard isn't yours.

I might casually ask how many people they're interviewing that day, and if it leads to talking about what's on the whiteboard, then I might give my opinion about what's on the whiteboard. Then again, what's on the whiteboard might have been written by your next boss (and not another interviewee), and you may have to be careful about what you say about the code (if you want the job, that is) :-)

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Re: Re: An Interview Quandry
by dws (Chancellor) on Oct 12, 2003 at 19:14 UTC
    Then again, what's on the whiteboard might have been written by your next boss (and not another interviewee), and you may have to be careful about what you say about the code (if you want the job, that is)

    Might you want to know in advance whether people in that environment have fragile egos?

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      When interviewing people, I have on occasion given the candidate a print-out of a snippet of my code with a couple of egregious bugs and with my name on the first line, and asked them what they think - could they program in this style and so on.

      I want to employ people who won't be afraid to tell me when I screw up.

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