Technical Interview

I thought this would be an interesting share, this hasn’t happened to me before. A few days ago I received a recruitment email from a local recruiter who found me on LinkedIn. I figured it couldn’t hurt to see where the exchange might lead. I’m always curious to learn what’s happening in other parts of our industry. I’ve learned that often times you can distinguish what values are implicitly expressed and valued by an interviewers questions. You can also learn a lot by what is not asked in an interview. ...

I’ve recently had the discomfort of being on the other end of the interview table, the side asking the questions. A couple of warm up questions that I’ve posed to would be candidates left me a bit surprised and underwhelmed. I should note that I personally hate interviews that the interviewer bases success solely on your ability to write the solution that they’re looking for. That said we’d recently gone through a very frustrating bout with a few contractors who claimed they loved to test but also have the handy ability of writing code. There resumes clearly stating that they were very qualified. The last bit we learned quite painfully was an over-exaggeration on their part. ...