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- Another good tangible preparation is to request that a candidate sends you some sample code they've written. Do that ahead of time if possible, so that you'll have time to look at it. I find looking at a candidate's code, tells me more about their expertise than a resume. If the code is clean, with good naming conventions, and appropriate comments, that is a very good sign. If it's sloppy with incomprehensible method and variable names, then it's a red flag. Usually it will be somewhere in the middle but just analyzing it gives me a good sense of the quality of the candidate's work product. Speaking personally, what I'm looking for is code that's clear, if I can understand it reasonably well, just by looking at it briefly, it's likely that this candidate can write code that other members of the team will understand. 20 years ago I had the candidate send me eight or 10 pages of code, extracted from a project and that…

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