Comment by rbanffy

11 years ago

Interviewer time is expensive and candidate time is cheap.

Running git blame is faster than waiting 30 minutes for the results of a whiteboard test.

  • Running, then cleaning and then having a dataset that still needs interpretation.

    I'd take the 30 minute interview route and risk not hiring a clever programmer.

    • Aren't we trying to hire clever programmers? Isn't that the point?

      If a guy has some kind of a git-mutating program that makes it seem like he writes good stuff, he's probably a good programmer to be able to write such a thing.

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