But now we're scaling, so need to figure out how to do a technical interview again. But... man, all my technical interview methods feel obsolete / inadequate. Seems pretty silly to not let a candidate use Cursor/Claude when I would 100% be expecting them to use it every day. But also if we just vibe something together it'll be darn hard to figure out what they actually know.
Looking for a process for mid to sr level.
Anybody feel like they've figured this out yet?
- "Take a look at this PR / codebase" doesn't age well, because "claude make me a powerpoint that ELI5s this codebase" is better.
- Simple coding puzzle was never very good, but at least showed they could type. All of this is just LLM fodder now, do I really care?
- Complex system debug / comprehension type questions are always hit-or-miss in my experience. I feel like any setup I do to make a tough to solve problem will be trivial for Claude, so doesn't feel authentic either.
- System design at ~whiteboard still feels reasonable / CS basics.
justinludwig•7mo ago
Bingo. Timeless classic for good reason.
Code review also can be good, not in a "can you spot the 17 bugs" way, but rather as a tool for discussing what makes code good, what make a code-review good, what are the tradeoffs in this particular section of code, what tests or other safety checks might you want to add to this particular code, etc.