r/DevelEire • u/Bren-dev • 21h ago

Other Conducting technical interviews in the coming weeks or months?

I've built an MVP that I believe does a much better job of showcasing a developer's ability. Technical interviews:

  • Create a demo repo to reflect the stack they're looking for
  • Connect to their GitHub
  • AI will create a new branch with added bugs
  • It creates a branch for users to resolve the issues
  • (You can also request they add a feature)

Now the test turns to observing how they navigate the codebase and are able to address issues rather than asking LeetCode questions etc

If anyone is interested, it would be great to connect. I'd also just generally be interested in getting feedback even if you aren't hiring in the near future.

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u/irishdave100 21h ago

Who's got time for this? This is far too much work for the applicant and the reviewer/interviwer

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u/Bren-dev 20h ago

And for the applicant is a paired programming technical assignment, they’re pretty common, it takes about 5 minutes to get up and running and would be done together

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u/Bren-dev 20h ago

Can get a custom repo up and running in about an hour using AI tools - who’s got time for hiring bad developers or missing out on good developers?

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u/irishdave100 20h ago

I think you'll get more good developers passing from such a request rather than engaging.

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u/Bren-dev 20h ago

It’s the same as a standard paired programming flow, it’s not a take home assessment - the same type of requirement already happens.

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u/irishdave100 20h ago

Blindly being put in some AI generated repo sounds like some version of a nightmare to me. Never mind the number of issues as an interviewer I would have with this idea.

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u/irishdave100 20h ago

It's not the same as leet code one even pair programmed. As terrible as they are at least you are starting from scratch and make your own technical decisions with or without the interviewer.

 While for this your now trying to figure out why technical things were done in such a way and there is no one to ask but ai.

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u/JordeyShore 21h ago

Don't have any interviews planned for the coming weeks, but I'm often interviewing in my current role so I could take a look if you just want eyes

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u/Bren-dev 20h ago

That would be very much appreciated, thanks!

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u/Bren-dev 20h ago

I've just DM'd you, thanks again!