Retiring a Great Interview Problem

Retiring a Great Interview Problem

Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code . The tech press sporadically publishes  "best" interview questions  that make me cringe — though I love the IKEA question . Startups like Codility  and Interview Street  see this challenge as an opportunity, offering hiring managers the prospect of outsourcing their coding interviews. Meanwhile, Diego Basch and others are urging us to stop subjecting candidates to whiteboard coding exercises . I don't have a silver bullet to offer. I agree that IQ tests and gotcha questions are a terrible way to assess software engineering candidates. At best, they test only one desirable attribute; at worst, they are a crapshoot as to whether a candidate has seen a similar problem or stumbles into the key insight. Coding questions are a much better tool for assessing people whose day job will be coding,

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