{"id":209,"date":"2015-04-17T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T02:46:40","slug":"paper-code-helps-you-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/paper-code-helps-you-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"paper-code helps you interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ManagerJS\/paper-code\">github.com\/ManagerJS\/paper-code<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing daily for this blog, I&#8217;ve been scraping together resources that web devs and their managers might benefit from during interviewing. \u00a0I made the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ManagerJS\">ManagerJS<\/a>\u00a0GitHub organization to hold those documents and code.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m announcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ManagerJS\/paper-code\">paper-code<\/a> repository. \u00a0It will hold programming challenges you can sketch out with pen and paper during interviews. I routinely use these when interviewing intern candidates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know these aren&#8217;t perfect. They aren&#8217;t uncommon, either.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d like to move on to a paid audition model. Candidates would have a week or two to solve a real problem for us and get paid for it. \u00a0I can&#8217;t quite get that to work right now.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I use a combination of other more static tools &#8212; like the challenges in paper-code.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my peers have told me, &#8220;you&#8217;re crazy to post those things online.&#8221; I think they figure candidates will find them. Personally, I think if a candidate finds these problems and prepares for them then they deserve to do well in my interview. \u00a0As the instructions state, I&#8217;m not just looking for a canned answer. I&#8217;ll probe. I expect it would be hard to pass on a memorized solution.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I only have a couple of problems documented today. Over time I&#8217;ll add more and more. \u00a0If you ace all of them, you&#8217;re probably well prepared anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>github.com\/ManagerJS\/paper-code In addition to writing daily for this blog, I&#8217;ve been scraping together resources that web devs and their managers might benefit from during interviewing. \u00a0I made the ManagerJS\u00a0GitHub organization to hold those documents and code. Today I&#8217;m announcing the paper-code repository. \u00a0It will hold programming challenges you can sketch out with pen and paper&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/paper-code-helps-you-interview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">paper-code helps you interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,57],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-applying","tag-hiring","tag-interviewing","post_format-post-format-link","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}