So true. Especially easy, when you overestimate your coding skills! If you're honest about your abilities, it will be much more likely that other skills will be weighed to compensate. If you lie, how do I know you can do the other things?
Would you ask somebody to do a literature review or an experiment during an interview?
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I think this analogy doesn't quite work. There are certain coding questions that are fine and certain lit review questions that are too - e.g. 'where would you start if you were to find out x and y/ solve this coding problem?'. I know several companies do 'coding' questions
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or tests at interviews that are logic based. But I DO think best way of testing this is to ask to see some code they've written or to ask them what they have written (or to see online repositories if it's that relevant to the role). These are easy questions to 'freeze' while
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answering and depending on the role you're interviewing for, you might not need someone who interviews well if they code well.
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I found it helpful to write an interview guideline. Of course I did not ask to code in front of me, but rather asked a simple question that any person should be able to answer who has some coding experience. All I can ask for really ;)
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I was trying to make the point you made
@hisotalus, so yes, agreed.
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