Question

Since this hasn’t been asked any where I could find on SO,and since I may be hiring a haskell dev soon I thought I would bring this up..

What would be some detailed verbal questions to ask that would demonstrate a strong working knowledge of haskell. I can think of a few good questions and coding projects, but it would really help to see what other people think.

Answer 1

I usually ask interview questions starting with easy and going to hard. Eventually you get to a question hard enough to make the candidate fail or at least sweat, and then you get to see how they handle the pressure.

So for Haskell, you might go with:

• easy: generate a list of primes
• medium: write a function that gives the nth Fibonacci number
• hard: demonstrate the use of a Monad