Interviews

You suck at technical interviews – Response

Sep 2, 2014

A post titled You suck at technical interviews has been popping up on my twitter feed this week. It was written by the CTO of npm and makes some really good points on the difficulties around technical hiring. I agree with most of what was said, except for one or two key points – which I will outline below.

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The Most Revealing Job Interview Question

Apr 18, 2013

This week I came across an interesting blog post titled ‘The Most Revealing Job Interview Question‘. I’m always interested in the types of questions being asked in developer interviews and this one was no exception. Here is the question:

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A tough interview question

Jan 28, 2013

Yesterday I stumbled across an interesting post on Reddit about a really tough interview question. It’s not that uncommon to be asked to solve a puzzle during software interviews, but it’s also not exactly clear what information can be deduced from the candidate’s ability to answer them.

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An Interview with ThoughtWorks

Oct 5, 2011

I recently went through the ThoughtWorks interview process.  When I was starting the interview process I read quite a few blogs about what the interview process is like so I thought I would give an account of the process I went through.

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Microsoft Interview Questions and Answers 2

Feb 1, 2011

In my last post I tried to answer some questions from a list of Microsoft Interview Questions.  As before, this is really just a fun exercise.  No googling is allowed.

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Microsoft Interview Questions and Answers

Jan 31, 2011

Yesterday on twitter someone posted a link to a list of Microsoft Interview Questions.  I really enjoy challenging interview questions, so I’m going to attempt to answer some of them and see how I do, similar to what I did with the Google Interview Questions a while ago.

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