{"id":284,"date":"2009-03-25T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/crazy-idea-using-iphones-during-interviews\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:26","slug":"crazy-idea-using-iphones-during-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/crazy-idea-using-iphones-during-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Idea: Using iPhones During Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using an iPhone as a resource during a job interview is an idea worth considering.  An iPhone can google answers to trivial questions Unlike a laptop, it can be used while people face each other, and it&#8217;s small enough not to obscure someone.  Additionally, it can&#8217;t compile and test code, so candidates must still think everything through in their head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adding technology to an interview, just because it&#8217;s technology, is a bad idea<\/strong> for exactly the same reasons that <a href=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/alan-kay-on-why-computer-based-teaching-fails\/\">just putting computers in a classroom isn&#8217;t helpful without special curriculum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But since an iPhone is so unobtrusive, I think it&#8217;s uses are worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>In technical interviews, it&#8217;s very common for the interviewee to have a question about an API or other detail.  The standard practice is for them to agree with the interviewer on an assumed answer and run with it.  <em>This works<\/em>.  But it might be interesting to have the real answer available.<\/p>\n<p>Another open question is if google-fu is something that <em>should<\/em> be tested during an interview. If so, an iPhone might be one way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have an idea for incorporating some technology into a face-to-face interview?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using an iPhone as a resource during a job interview is an idea worth considering. An iPhone can google answers to trivial questions Unlike a laptop, it can be used while people face each other, and it&#8217;s small enough not to obscure someone. Additionally, it can&#8217;t compile and test code, so candidates must still think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,81,374,616],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-interviewing","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}