| ▲ | open592 2 days ago | |||||||
> i.e. if you wag your tail chasing a bad end for 15 mins, this is a fail in an interview In all pair programming interviews I have run (which I will admit have been only a few) I would fail myself as an interviewer if I was not able to guide the interviewee away from a dead end within 15 minutes. If the candidate wasn't able to understand the hints I was giving them, or just kept driving forward, then they would fail. | ||||||||
| ▲ | raffraffraff a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Exactly! Who calls "researching how to build X, but then letting my pair-programming partner fall down a rabbit hole so I can feel superior" "pair programming". | ||||||||
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| ▲ | michaelcampbell a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
> I would fail myself as an interviewer You are not most interviewers, alas. | ||||||||