The tales of covert evaluation procedures had me thinking for quite a while. I wondered how one could ever know how to react correctly. The whole concern irked me all along though - I passionately hate playing games like this.

My conclusion is that you have to decide on your goal: do you want this job, or are you looking for a job that's "for you"?

Since I decided that I want the latter, my answer is: I'd ask whether the interviewer is interested in comments on the code on the blackboard - it might be written by another interviewee who was rejected, f.ex, or be completely out of scope of the interview for a number of other reasons. If I'm given the go-ahead, then I wouldn't hesitate to mention my observations, just like I want others to mention theirs to me. If I'm then rejected for that reason, then it's not likely an employer I'd want to work for in the first place.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: An Interview Quandry by Aristotle
in thread An Interview Quandry by dws

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