Are you struggling with hiring good programmers? This guide will help you to reliably understand if a candidate is a competent programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori's interview.
Casey doesn't like LeetCode style of interviews, instead, he follows a drill-down approach where he
Chooses a project the candidate has worked on.
Asks questions with the goal of having the candidate teach him about his project.
With this approach, he claims he can always understand if someone is a competent programmer, and he has never seen it fail.
According to Casey, two questions need to be answered in an interview
If they are competent programmers. Whether they will be productive at your company/project.
His opinion is that the second question is much harder to answer, and he doesn't know how to reliably do it, and whether there is a way to answer it.
For the first question, he says that with the process he is following, he can always understand when someone is a good programmer.
The process he follows can be summarized in the following steps:
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