Phone screen vs. face-to-face
Honestly, I thought the face-to-face problems were supposed to be harder than the phone screen problems. However in my recent experience I've found them to be more-or-less the same.
Face-to-face aren't really harder. People assume that they should be, but if you think about it, why would you? If you want to make the phone screen an effective screener for onsite interviews, shouldn't you apply the same standards?
That said, they might differ in one of two ways:
(1) Require less coding, since you can't do coding quite as effectively.
(2) Be slightly easier (although the expectations / standards might be equally higher). Sometimes, if I have no idea of someone's skills, I might ask an easier question on a phone screen because I don't want to get stuck with someone forever who obviously can't solve the question I asked. With onsite interviews, I usually know that someone was at least good enough to pass some earlier phone screens.
In my experience, there's not a huge amount of difference. What are some of the differences you've noticed?
- eugene.yarovoi March 18, 2013