Some interview tips

I will not tire of the preface, immediately to the point:

1. Practice is more important than theory.

Very often, the interviewers are bombarded with questions on the theory (sometimes frankly annoying, such as “how different are the versions of a software product”), but they do not provide practical tasks, or “practice” consists of logical tasks. My advice: you want to know how much a person knows a theory - give him a task, where he will have to use this theory. You can not come up with such a task? Then you should think about your understanding of the theory, or the need in real life of what you ask.

2. In the short term, experience and knowledge are important. In the long run - thinking

An interview based on a theory cannot reveal candidates with suitable thinking - you may not fall into the field of human knowledge, or, on the contrary, guess the list of frequently-asked-on-interview-questions. In this and in another case, you will not have an idea about the real possibilities of the candidate. So, see clause 1. By the way a person tries to solve a problem, you can understand a lot. However, if you need a person to tweak something right now, calculate according to no one algorithm - in short, apply his existing knowledge using the template method - then yes, theory and experience are in the foreground.

3. Put the tasks on the interview that a person will need to solve in practice.

You should not look for “best tasks for interviews”, lists of questions that ask candidates in Google and so on - as practice shows, many people simply do not know how to use them, and use them as tests: aha, the answer / my_except agreed, put a plus sign. Set a person a task that a person in a similar position recently had to solve, or which our candidate will actually have to solve. After all, you are not asking a candidate for programmers how he can cook.
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4. Decide who you are looking for.

I do not think that you really need a man orchestra. Firstly, it is much more expensive, secondly, it may be boring to do routine things, and in the third it may simply be weaker than a “narrow” specialist in this field. By the way, I advise you to watch the movie moneyball - there it is well told.

That's all. If you have additions - I will be glad to see in the comments.

UPD Also, in the comments it would be interesting to see both the most ridiculous questions that you were asked at the interviews, and the most successful.