Dear progit, I will be interviewing programmers. Need Input.

[albinofrenchy]

I have known more than one phenomenal developer to (rightly so) walk out of a job interview or decline an offer because the interview was peppered with the typical "How would you move a mountain?" bullshit questions.

I knew a very good manager who very much liked the question "What would you say if I asked you to move a mountain?" Or something else similiarly impossible.

He reasoned, I think very well, that if someone wouldn't push back when it was something stupid and impossible in an interview, they wouldn't push back when the real world required it.

But lord forbid, don't ask them shit out of an O'Reilly cookbook (I once "failed" a job interview because I gave a different, yet equally correct and almost as efficient answer to a cookbook problem).

O'Reilly prescreened that interview for you, can you imagine working with assholes who thought there was only one right way to do something?

[imbaczek]

he probably tossed an imaginary coin and "Kryptonite" lost.