Interviewing Programmers
Hello my dear senior friends in SW engineering , how do you interview new recruits for programming ?Do you start with phone interview and continue on written tests to face-to-face interview? Eventually it will come down to your experience and gut feeling? Most of times we do it in that way. But we have experienced some best practices of picking "better" programmers! In an environment like work we need more “practical programmers” than just “good coders”. Because most of times our programmers will need to directly work with end user and understand the requirement from business perspective. So we have more responsibility to choose “right” people from interviews. We take advantage of intern programs, we hunt down the smart CS/IT students and individually ask them to apply for an internship with us, because if you wait around to see who sends you a resume, you're already missing out. In one incident tried asking applicant to develop a program, I have used a very genera...