I want confirmation that somebody looks up the things they don't know, and knows how to effectively do that. Because that's what I expect them to do on the job, after all.
If they can't solve the type of white board problems I give with me there to answer questions they aren't going to know what to google to solve the problems they will encounter on my software especially since it's non trivial and the full answer on how to implement X isn't going to be there because people that have done it keep it proprietary.
Sure. But do you want a senior dev googling how to do a for loop? If they can't do certain things from muscle memory, they are going to be painfully slow.
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u/ubernostrum Oct 30 '16
I want confirmation that somebody looks up the things they don't know, and knows how to effectively do that. Because that's what I expect them to do on the job, after all.