Right-o. Good to go with open ended questions. It's hard for candidates to memorize answers. Sadly i see lots of these kinds of idiotic strategies on their pa

Right-o. Good to go with open ended questions. It's hard for candidates to memorize answers. Sadly i see lots of these kinds of idiotic strategies on their part :-) When i started my first company in 95 or thereabouts, i remember a person who just would not open his mouth during the entire interview. I didn't know what to make of him. I then asked my receptionist to talk to him, find out if i was being too rough or intimidating etc. Turns out that the interviewee did not trust his own command over english enough to answer back. Once i learned that, i just handed him a free PC, told him to try writing whatever program he wanted in the next few hours and did not set any time limits. When i came back after lunch, i saw that he had written a complete game ( This was in the DOS days where writing a game was really difficult since there were no high-level game engines around ) The guy eventually turned out to be one of my best programmer.