Three things not to ask in a coding interview

John Raines
6 min readMay 2, 2024
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When you’re a candidate in a coding interview, asking questions is an important part of clarifying requirements. You want to feel confident that you understand what’s being asked of you. You want to give definition to the blurry edges of the prompt. So questions are good.

Some questions. Other questions are not great.

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John Raines

For money, I’m a software engineer who primarily works in machine learning platform design. For free, I read fantasy novels and raise children (my own).