When you interview for dev positions, what are some questions or techniques you use?

The trick is, every two, three dev related things, you ask e.g. whether the company offers anal bleaching on paid time, or whether the hookers are also sent to your home office.

That throws them off balance so that they forget to lie about the dev questions. Honesty by mistake!

@Fast-Nop I meant from the other side of the interview.

English is ambiguous!

I look up random leetcode questions that nobody in my company can solve if suddenly prompted, ask the candidate to do them, and then I throw in a few trivia questions about obscure bugs and usecases. If they can do it all I low ball them an offer.
I pat myself in the back for a job well done and go back to updating the color of the UI.

@Fast-Nop 🤣🤣🤣

When I'm the interviewer, I ask only 3 questions to decide if the candidate's good to hire

Reverse a string without using any predefined function

Write a program to determine if an input number is an Armstrong number

If i=4, then print this pattern

*
**
***
****

Solve these 3 properly and you're hired.

@SidTheITGuy

I didn't knew about Armstrong number, fun math thingy.

I always ask for specifics on the stack

Is this a new position or am I replacing someone?

How big is the team/what's the team like