Jakylla

Recognizing class/functions/basic functions is not a criterion for a good engineer, it’s a criterion for any developer. Not saying it’s bad to check that… In fact yes, quiet a bit bad. Nowadays there is google to help you understand how to use find; you don’t need to know by heart how it works, and maybe you are a good engineer that can find how to use that with man or internet in a short time.

Ask him also a relatively hard problem (easy to understand though). Not something to code particularly, but a problem to see how he process it, how he’s thinking about it, what will he look for in the project, what questions will he ask you about the problem.

It will not take more than 10-15minutes, and you can easily pick who will be able to Engineer a solution (=> think about it, how it works, how it interacts) from people that can output code that works but need someone else to give them detailed instructions to be able to work.