> I think in its current state there is very little actual engineering in this industry.
Agreed.
> It's not so good for gauging actual problem solving ability or engineering ability.
Also agree. It is not the only question I ask. However, I only want to hire people who, when the need arises, can actually use a hammer. I am perplexed that people find that offensive.
> At the in-person interview I tend to do two things: discuss in depth a project in the person's past and a higher level discussion about something pertinent to their work at the company. For me the latter has varied from details for some feature to be implemented in a real time system to motivating a data exploration approach in the context of developing a data science product.
Agree. However, I also do some technical parts in person/
Agreed.
> It's not so good for gauging actual problem solving ability or engineering ability.
Also agree. It is not the only question I ask. However, I only want to hire people who, when the need arises, can actually use a hammer. I am perplexed that people find that offensive.
> At the in-person interview I tend to do two things: discuss in depth a project in the person's past and a higher level discussion about something pertinent to their work at the company. For me the latter has varied from details for some feature to be implemented in a real time system to motivating a data exploration approach in the context of developing a data science product.
Agree. However, I also do some technical parts in person/