My favourite tech interview technique was the code review style. Give them some code with a range of deliberate issues and ask them to code review it live on the call.
Tests their code comprehension and as you can ask them questions live, it’s reasonably AI proof (I think). You can ask them to refactor things on the call, which tends to be something AI is weak at. It also requires no take home work for the applicant.
My company has just said that AI use in the interview is fine, but we will be asking questions as they work through it to check they actually understand things.
There’s probably a few things you can do live on a call.
I always wanted to try passing a common function through a minifier then a beautifier. Show them the code with unhelpful variable names, and ask them what name they would give the function.
A good programmer would be able to identify a string compare function or an IP bitmask eval function pretty quickly.
I probably wouldn’t, because I call a library to do it for me. That’s because I’m not a C programmer and it’s easy to use libraries in other languages since they have package managers that just import all the other packages
My favourite tech interview technique was the code review style. Give them some code with a range of deliberate issues and ask them to code review it live on the call.
Tests their code comprehension and as you can ask them questions live, it’s reasonably AI proof (I think). You can ask them to refactor things on the call, which tends to be something AI is weak at. It also requires no take home work for the applicant.
My company has just said that AI use in the interview is fine, but we will be asking questions as they work through it to check they actually understand things.
There’s probably a few things you can do live on a call.
I always wanted to try passing a common function through a minifier then a beautifier. Show them the code with unhelpful variable names, and ask them what name they would give the function.
A good programmer would be able to identify a string compare function or an IP bitmask eval function pretty quickly.
I probably wouldn’t, because I call a library to do it for me. That’s because I’m not a C programmer and it’s easy to use libraries in other languages since they have package managers that just import all the other packages