If they want something that mimics the common, everyday.. Give the candidate a p...

aantix on Feb 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harder programming questions do a worse job of pre...

If they want something that mimics the common, everyday..

Give the candidate a project with 300,000 loc, tell them to make the most local change possible that fixes the reported bug. Update the tests to reflect the new logic.

Bonus: discuss architectural changes that would have resolved the bug and/or improved performance.

auston on Feb 18, 2019 [–]

They do something like this with a couple thousand lines of code and failing tests.