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    [–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    I remember one interview I had with a candidate. It was for a database analyst position that required SQL.

    The first round was typically a phone screen where I chat with the candidate, get to know them a bit.

    Second round was code review. I asked them to do a SQL query that did x.

    The queries were simple. The goal was to get the candidate to walk through the query.

    I had one candid that, over screen share, wrote the query flawlessly. Then I asked them to explain what it was doing. The candidate froze.

    I can get understand getting nervous so I moved onto an insert statement. I had them write one and then do another without using certain terms (often leading to a sub query).

    Again, flawless. I asked what situations would you use one over the other.

    Again, they froze. I started to get suspicious that they were cheating and had them, instead of typing the answer, say the answer. When they couldn't, I knew enough that it wasn't going to work.

    [–] stoly@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I had an applicant very obviously read to me that Wikipedia article about Active Directory.

    [–] send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When in doubt I ask them what RAID 45 is.

    [–] AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Ooo and there's even a serious looking page "explaining" it as the first result when looking it up on Google

    I'm definitely stealing this idea

    Steal away. An old boss knew the person who maintains that page. If I remember correctly it's entire reason for being is for that one question.

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