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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

I love bug squash interviews.

Passing involves convincing the interviewer that the technique used to find the bug is repeatable and somewhat “scientific.” Is the candidate making hypotheses about how the codebase works and testing them? It might take you 10 seconds to build and test that project, but on their 2013 MacBook Air with Zoom running in the background, their dev loop is easily 10-20x longer. The snapshot of the project at a point in time will bitrot as new language, dependency, and operating system versions are released.

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