via Hiring Technical People - How to Interview a Programmer by Bill Venners:

"Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy. This article contains interview techniques, garnered from a recent summit on writing better code, that can help you can find the most qualified programmers for your project.

Scott Meyers and Bruce Eckel organised the Writing Better Code summit and on the final morning 'hijacked' the meeting to compare notes on recognizing a good programmer in an interview. Insight +4.

Incidentally, readers of Duncan's Jotter should not read anything into these links to job interview blogs, etc. I only thought they might be of interest to some of my students who will be graduating soon ;-)