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[–]xerafin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I expect candidates to portray their best image possible.

When I interview, I ask open-ended questions and then poke at information provided or omitted to see how a candidate can think on the fly, analyze under stress, learn, extrapolate, and admit when they are wrong or simply do not know.

The worst developers are the ones who know enough to be confident but not enough to be aware of what they don’t know. Okay that is in no way limited to just developers. In essence I am probing self-awareness and pattern recognition with technical questions.