I've seen a lot of writeups about interviewing here on hacker news. Things I liked in this particular one: - Admission that arbitrary coding challenges that ar

I've seen a lot of writeups about interviewing here on hacker news. Things I liked in this particular one: - Admission that arbitrary coding challenges that are unrealistic to the applied job are ridiculous - Recognition that you need to understand the engineer and approach things from their point of view, not from your own selfish view as the interviewer - Urging that being polite and humble is important. Even if you don't like the candidate, there is no need to attack or diminish them. One question I have: What is wrong with copying and pasting solutions to issues that have been solved before by others? I tend to do this all the time myself ( albeit I often end up rewriting the solutions to tailor them more to the problem ) Overall decent suggestions for interviewing.