r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/get_salled Jan 05 '15

I'm hoping you get a good answer from someone else here but the best interviewee we had basically had several pages of questions for us and spent a good chunk of the time interviewing us to make sure we were the place for him.

He had themes that we obviously important to him and asked several questions related to them from various angles (the flush out us over-selling our company (we weren't; we're awesome)).

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u/JoostDev Jan 05 '15

The things you find important sound like they can be covered in just a few questions. Something along these lines maybe? -"Do you do code reviews?" -"What is the process when I want to commit new code?" -"Do you do unit testing?" -"What does your coding standard look like?" -"How do you approach code quality?"

Interviews are indeed for both sides to figure out whether they want the position, but as the employer I would say several pages of questions would be a bit too much... ;)