# The right way to interview

DevFeed: [The right way to interview](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-right-way-to-interview-39668.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gauravsarma.com/random/2025-05-27_the-right-way-to-interview>)

Published: 2025-05-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Gaurav Sarma's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gaurav-sarma-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>)

Tags: [bias](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bias.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experience.md>), [hiring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hiring.md>), [interview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interview.md>), [pair](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pair.md>), [technical-interview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-interview.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that technical interviews should primarily use bug-squashing or pair-programming exercises, allowing interviewers to observe how candidates reason, respond to mistakes, challenge hypotheses, and work in practice. It also notes that these interviews require more preparation and may introduce subjective judgment and interviewer bias, while data-structures-and-algorithms questions can provide a more objective signal.

## Source excerpt

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1938429909338362348 The best kind of interview is the bug squash or pair programmer round where both the interviewer and the candidate team up to solve a common problem...