Steve Yegge writes about the problems with technical interviews. He certainly paints a bleak picture of the current state of the art. I think the real problem is that technical interviewing is really the type of unconscious decision making that Malcolm Gladwell described in Blink. When a really good hacker walks into the room […]

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Interviewing candidates for a development position can be a daunting task. The consequences of making the wrong decision can be expensive and difficult to correct. One potential solution adopted by many employers is the pop-quiz interview. In a pop-quiz interview the interviewer asks technical questions with a very specific predetermined answer. Employers need a good […]

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