Taking the measure of a developer
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Continuing on the interview stuff, here is something that can tell you quite a bit about a developer. Given the following error, what do they do?

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Here are a couple of options:

  1. They tell you: "I can't get it to work, it keeps failing and I don't know why."
  2. Look into the inner exception.
  3. Googles the exception message first, and give up if the first result doesn't show anything relevant.
  4. Look into the inner exception, google that, and fix the problem.
  5. Fix the error after reading the message
  6. Look into the inner exception and fixing the problem.
  7. Download and install the kernel debugger and then they start digging

If they can't pass this test (and if you are reading this post, I sure do hope that you know what of the above is a correct response), they don't hire them.

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