My favorite interview in the past was when the company took a ticket off the backlog and I asked questions to solve it. Aka they hired me for a half day.
They were available to ask questions, but mostly I was there figuring it out by myself.
In this case, I had never used golang before, but by the end of the half day, I had a solution I was happy with.
Sure they took a risk giving me access to the entire codebase... But as a tool to assess my ability it was top notch.
Later, when I was working there, that same ticket got prioritized and it ended up taking 3 or 4 days to solve by other team mates (my solution wasn't quite right).
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My favorite interview in the past was when the company took a ticket off the backlog and I asked questions to solve it. Aka they hired me for a half day.
They were available to ask questions, but mostly I was there figuring it out by myself.
In this case, I had never used golang before, but by the end of the half day, I had a solution I was happy with.
Sure they took a risk giving me access to the entire codebase... But as a tool to assess my ability it was top notch.
Later, when I was working there, that same ticket got prioritized and it ended up taking 3 or 4 days to solve by other team mates (my solution wasn't quite right).