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On hiring developers: code reading » interview puzzles [Crockford talking to @peterseibel]
Excerpt from Peter Seibel’s interview with Douglas Crockford.
Seibel: When you’re hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones?
Crockford: The approach I’ve taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he’s really proud of and walk us through it. […] I’m looking for quality of presentation […] I want to see evidence that in fact he is the author of the thing that he’s defending. I find that is much more effective than asking them to solve puzzles or trivia questions. I see all that kind of stuff as useless. But how effectively they can communicate, that’s a skill that I’m hiring for.
- Peter Seibel. Coders at Work
