alt Hacker NewsReally? How short are your interviews, and how big are these Real Problems such that you can't get a sense of how your candidate would start to tackle them?
Really? How short are your interviews, and how big are these Real Problems such that you can't get a sense of how your candidate would start to tackle them?
The “real problems” most companies want people to help solve involve the evolution of products that last for years, involve repeated design discussions, in depth research, and applying retrospective learning. I don’t need someone that can just glue a Rails API together. If I did, I can literally just download that from the internet for free.
If my problems could be solved in the time span of an interview, why would I waste my time doing that interview instead of just solving it?