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I would give them small assignments and come back in an hour or two and have them show me how they went about solving them
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I would give them small assignments and come back in an hour or two and have them show me how they went about solving them

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I am going to interview a Java candidate soon. Usually what I do is I have a list of questions (e.g. what is an abstract class?). I was thinking of doing something different, in particular sit them down in from of a computer and give them some programming tasks and let them go for an hour. Joel on Software suggests some simple tasks, adding up an array and such, so that might be a place to start.<br />
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So 2 questions:<br />
1. Do you think this is good approach to an interview?<br />
2. Can you suggest any good programming tasks?
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I am going to interview a Java candidate soon. Usually what I do is I have a list of questions (e.g. what is an abstract class?). I was thinking of doing something different, in particular sit them down in from of a computer and give them some programming tasks and let them go for an hour. Joel on Software suggests some simple tasks, adding up an array and such, so that might be a place to start.

So 2 questions:
1. Do you think this is good approach to an interview?
2. Can you suggest any good programming tasks?

programming tasks for interviewee

Java is a platform-independent, object-oriented programming language and run-time environment, designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible such that developers can write one set of code across all platforms using libraries. Most devices will not run Java natively, and require a run-time component to be installed in order to execute a Java program.