My favorite interview question
Whenever I interview a candidate I always work in some variation of a very simple question:
How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?
I don’t really care what the answer is (that is, I don’t mind if we disagree). However, I care very much that people think critically about the tools that they use and love. You would be surprise how many people are stymied by this question.
:F
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Michael Kazarian
Thank you. You give good idea. I will remember this question.
Apr 26th, 2011
Mark C
But how can you answer this question if your favorite is (a) Lisp?
May 4th, 2011
fogus
@markc
Lisp is the family, there are bound to be things that you can think of improving for any given implementation. :-)
May 4th, 2011
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