Re: [tlug] Ghosted?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <steve@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:
 > On Wednesday, 30 July 2025 at 03:02, Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > For a developer position, another approach is to have them
 > > do some basic demonstration work and ask them about aspects of the
 > > design choices they made.
 > 
 > This is what I've been doing in hiring for the last 10 years. At
 > Klarna, we sent candidates a take-home coding task designed to take
 > 1-2 hours,

Marcus Hutchins skeeted today that what he does is give them a
programming problem, then stand them at a whiteboard with hardcopy and
do a walkthrough.  Sounds similar.

The only problem with this is that there are very smart people who
can't explain worth a damn, while the code speaks for itself.
Although I imagine if "you listen very hard" you as interviewer can
often work around that.

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