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Discussion on: Personality Tests Don't Belong In Job Interviews

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Beekey Cheung

I agree about the need to test technical and inter-personal skills, which is why I described using an open ended architecture/design problem to do so.

I disagree that a code review is as good. Discussing how code should be structured and the trade offs of various decisions is more representative of technical skill than catching style errors.

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Ben Calder

I don't agree that code review is simply about catching style errors: that's what linters and tools like Prettier automate for you. Amongst other things code review should definitely be looking at how coding decisions conform to architecture/design goals.

We at least both agree that using real-world scenarios is a better approach than personality tests and abstract code problems :)