alt Hacker NewsI don't know. A cold code review on a codebase they never saw is not super informative about how the candidate would interact with you and the code once they're in known territory.
I don't know. A cold code review on a codebase they never saw is not super informative about how the candidate would interact with you and the code once they're in known territory.
So yeah, I think it's the opposite: explicitly testing for their ability to read code is probably kinda important.