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This endless interview question is really stupid. If you’re in an interview saying “OK, NOW!” then you’re a huge waste of time.

Ask specific, probing questions to assess knowledge in your ideal areas, in some combination with an open ended problem solving question.

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What worries me is that I had done a bit of that previously in the first interview. Some of the people who seemed perfectly able to talk about things in theory wouldn't have passed FizzBuzz.

For this position we need people who can actually write code so testing coding ability seemed relevant. Hiring someone who can talk about code but not write a for loop or if statement wouldn't have been a good hire.

The open-ended problem solving question is a coding question.

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