In almost every interview I gave at the last several companies I worked for, I'd start with "This may feel a bit odd, but with this coding problem, I'd appreciate if you spoke through your problem solving. If it helps, pretend like I am your intern. Good ideas, bad ideas, pros and cons of whatever you're considering, it's all valuable information for me to learn a bit about how you approach problems."
I feel like being explicit like this put candidates at a bit more ease than having them try to suss out what the interviewer is expecting from them implicitly (and I know there are many interviewers that will auto-veto any candidate with the audacity to suggest a possibly imperfect approach).
xorvoid
I basically "chain of thought" to myself in my own notes when working through a hard task. Mayne we can call it "live tweeting in private".
Aometimes it feels like a super power because it takes away the "starting anxiety" and makes everything a trivial sequence of "following simple steps"
jamienk
"Free association" in psychoanalysis just asks people to let themselves speak, to fall into their speech, let it unfold - but it is very, very hard to do, because what you say tends to not be what you want to say. You want to avoid certain things, you can see your chain of speech leading up ahead to somewhere you don't want to go. So you stop yourself, or resist, and then what you are saying is not at all free but strained, hedging, tense and anxious.
Waterluvian
Witnessing a candidate’s thought process is probably the most valuable part of the interview process for me. Nothing else comes close. Just let me listen/watch you solve problems.
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algoth1
I wonder if the author is one of those people that doesn't have an audible inner monologue?
We use this in my science education platform: we make students talk out loud about what they're thinking. Not a chatbot, but guided inquiry that's designed to make them actually mentally engage with what they're seeing
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clivedup
> eh, "Chain of Thought for Humans" sounds stupid
> but maybe it has some nuance?
> eh, I think I still don't care enough to click
> but maybe I could post a funny comment
> it doesn't sound that funny, and besides, HN doesn't usually like these sorts of comments
> okay, let's just read the next story
> unless
whattheheckheck
Just make a theoretical minimum type test like the landau physicist
senectus1
holy shit this would break my ability to think completely.
I think and chase alternate chains of thought way faster than i can speak.
In almost every interview I gave at the last several companies I worked for, I'd start with "This may feel a bit odd, but with this coding problem, I'd appreciate if you spoke through your problem solving. If it helps, pretend like I am your intern. Good ideas, bad ideas, pros and cons of whatever you're considering, it's all valuable information for me to learn a bit about how you approach problems."
I feel like being explicit like this put candidates at a bit more ease than having them try to suss out what the interviewer is expecting from them implicitly (and I know there are many interviewers that will auto-veto any candidate with the audacity to suggest a possibly imperfect approach).
I basically "chain of thought" to myself in my own notes when working through a hard task. Mayne we can call it "live tweeting in private".
Aometimes it feels like a super power because it takes away the "starting anxiety" and makes everything a trivial sequence of "following simple steps"
"Free association" in psychoanalysis just asks people to let themselves speak, to fall into their speech, let it unfold - but it is very, very hard to do, because what you say tends to not be what you want to say. You want to avoid certain things, you can see your chain of speech leading up ahead to somewhere you don't want to go. So you stop yourself, or resist, and then what you are saying is not at all free but strained, hedging, tense and anxious.
Witnessing a candidate’s thought process is probably the most valuable part of the interview process for me. Nothing else comes close. Just let me listen/watch you solve problems.
I wonder if the author is one of those people that doesn't have an audible inner monologue?
This is basically https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2020/4/20/how-the-rit...
We use this in my science education platform: we make students talk out loud about what they're thinking. Not a chatbot, but guided inquiry that's designed to make them actually mentally engage with what they're seeing
> eh, "Chain of Thought for Humans" sounds stupid
> but maybe it has some nuance?
> eh, I think I still don't care enough to click
> but maybe I could post a funny comment
> it doesn't sound that funny, and besides, HN doesn't usually like these sorts of comments
> okay, let's just read the next story
> unless
Just make a theoretical minimum type test like the landau physicist
holy shit this would break my ability to think completely.
I think and chase alternate chains of thought way faster than i can speak.