I've recently started a new job at a company that uses perl as its main programming language (yay! Being around people that share my professional interests is such a nice change of pace.) And, as part of this job, I find myself having to interview people.

So, I'm wondering if anyone has any good advice? What kinds of questions work well? Are those annoying logic questions worthwhile? Does anyone have any really good questions to separate the strong candidates from those just faking it, particularly relating to perl? (I'm also interested in weeding out mysql dba candidates, but that's probably less interesting to the perlmonks as a whole.) And really bad questions?

I've definitely seen the downside of hiring someone that wasn't up to the position (from both sides, actually), and a lot of people are very good at faking their way through interviews. And, perhaps just as importantly, some really good people are terrible at interviews, and I want to try and find those, too.

(Yes, you can infer that I work for a company hiring Perl programmers. We're in (or rather, moving in a few weeks to) Berkeley, CA. Feel free to send me email if you want more info.)

-- Kirby

In reply to Perl Interviews by kirbyk

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