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Asking open ended questions, is where you can really gauge people. ie: What was the toughest coding problem you had to deal with at your last/current job? Tell
by devKnight 4y ago
Asking open ended questions, is where you can really gauge people. ie:
What was the toughest coding problem you had to deal with at your last/current job?
Tell me about the last time you needed to ask for help with a coding issue, where you had exhausted all options on your end?
etc etc
Edit: I help with hiring at the company i work at, and i like using open ended questions
- efortis 4y agoPast and test projects are good as well. I'm not against open ended questions, but making them should be a privilege the boss grants to well-intentioned employees.
- muzani 4y agoLike all good tests, they should also come prepared with a fail condition. I think most of these are just icebreakers - as long as you say something, you pass. So they tend to pass anyone who just "feels good". That biases it towards people who are good talkers. Sure, communication is a point. But sometimes, you interview someone in another time zone where it's 9 PM or 6 AM or before a lunch break after an exhausting half day. They'd just answer something dumb like, "Uhhh, if I was stuck and needed help, I'll ask...?" There's also people who are bad at spoken English, or have some mental block - have difficulty talking on zoom with camera on/off. There are those desperately need the job and end up using "safe" LinkedIn talk, where they refuse to badmouth the people who killed the last project, and refuse to admit that it was also partially their fault, so they just end up sounding sus. I'd say the way around this is to ask something that's partially open ended. Like "How would you solve this problem?"