Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R culture they are, and perhaps also tell you if their opinions of a good programmer concur with yours... On 11 Jan 2015 16:49, "Keith S Weintraub" <kw1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks, > > I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview > questions? > > I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing > a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or > mathematics. > > What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are more about how clever the > interviewer questions are than how to get the best person for the job. > > I would consider myself a mid-level R programmer so this would also be a > great opportunity to learn more and be able to hire a great candidate. > > I am perfectly happy to get a reference, book title or URL. > > Not looking for anyone to do my work for me! > > Best to all, > Happy New Year, > KW > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.