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Hey everyone, i'm currently in the process of starting a new business project, and i need some help interviewing potential programmers. I'm not a programmer by any means, hence why i need to hire someone, but what i'm also discovering is that this makes it a little difficult to assess an interviewees coding ability.
I've read online that the crucial part to interviewing a programmer is to test their coding ability...obviously this makes sense, but what is a guy supposed to do when i can't tell if they've successfully solved the problem or function? For example a supposedly "easy" coding problem would be to ask the candidate to write a function that determines if a string starts with an upper-case letter A-Z. I guess any programmer worth their weight should be able to solve this problem in 30 seconds, or as put in the article "as fast as they can write the answer down", but as i have no coding experience i wouldn't be able to tell if their answer was right or wrong.
So basically i'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions for ways to go about assessing a programmers ability without me actually knowing code??
I've read online that the crucial part to interviewing a programmer is to test their coding ability...obviously this makes sense, but what is a guy supposed to do when i can't tell if they've successfully solved the problem or function? For example a supposedly "easy" coding problem would be to ask the candidate to write a function that determines if a string starts with an upper-case letter A-Z. I guess any programmer worth their weight should be able to solve this problem in 30 seconds, or as put in the article "as fast as they can write the answer down", but as i have no coding experience i wouldn't be able to tell if their answer was right or wrong.
So basically i'm wondering if you guys have any suggestions for ways to go about assessing a programmers ability without me actually knowing code??