Hi Tom,

another approach is to give them a test for their knowledge of some
more arcane areas, and then ask your friendly developer to look over
their CV and engage in an email discussion.

I’ve done this several times to help find suitable developers. If
you’re an experienced person, you can generally get a good “feel” from
these interactions.

Tom Watts wrote:

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Hi everyone.

Long time listener, first time caller.

I was hoping that someone on this group could offer some advice…

We’re in the business of building and running online communities for
research and innovation, which we deliver to brands and agencys. Part
of our proposition is the delivery of our bespoke social network tool.

To date, we have been working with an external agency, who have done a
good job at building our product to specification. However, as business
ramps up, we are looking to refine the product and introduce new
features and services. As such, it has become necessary to recruit a
developer, who is versed in the use open source tools (LAMP).

We’ve looked around and have a good final list of candidates, who we
feel could be a good ‘fit’ to our existing team.

The one area that we have yet to test for is the ability to actually
code – including their approach to coding. Not having these skills
internally, it is difficult for us to achieve this. As such we were
hoping to find some form of test that we could give them.

In my mind, I thinking of a simple 1-2 hour exercise, whereby the
candidates could make a simple web application/service/feature, which
would demonstrate their skills. We have a friendly developer who could
then look through what they have made and give us an idea of their
abilities.

Is there such a test that people know of? If not, perhaps there is a
different approach that someone has used successfully?

Either way, I would very much appreciate any ideas people may have.

Thanks in advance

Tom

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