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Comment by whiplash451

2 days ago

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.

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CharlieDigital  2 days ago 

    > A cold code review on a codebase they never saw

What do you think happens in the first few weeks of someone joining a new team? Probably reading a lot of code they never saw...

So yeah, I think it's the opposite: explicitly testing for their ability to read code is probably kinda important.