Lazycoder

More against than for I think. I think this list is a good foundation for a set of interview questions and I get what you are driving towards. But I think the questions need more context. But my latest hire, an ex-softie who worked on VBA and Excel, probably couldn’t have answered many of those questions. He didn’t have any experience in ASP.NET and his only experience with C# and .NET was from having an office across the hall from the C# team and writing one short prototype class in C#. Now in two weeks he’s managed to re-write one of my dynamic composite controls from scratch and implement new functionality. He’s even helping out other members of the team with their web controls. I’d say he was a pretty good hire.

I personally lean towards more logic based questions and example based questions. Things like “what’s wrong with this code?” or “What type is this variable?”. I also quiz them on low-level, language independant type of things. Like “How would you sort the following items in an array?” or “Sketch out an interface for a class with the following properties and with the following functionality.”. But I put more weight on the answers to questions like “What went right with the last project you worked on? What went wrong? What would you have done differently?”