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I’ve been ruminating on what’s a good tech interview methodology since mine is good at finding junior programmers but not senior ones.

But what if we did a 2-3 hour pair programming session where we fix bugs in an open source project?

I think it would cover hard skills (actual coding), soft skills (git, reading and writing PRs) and address the “I don’t want to do free work for a company under the guise of an interview”

And so what if we use AI? Realistically, that’s how coding will be done anyway.

Thoughts? Has anyone tried this?



Then you need to spend 2-3 hours per candidate... And the candidate with you. Do the same for 1 hour.




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