How have you participated in conducting technical interviews with candidates?

I participated in several stages of technical interviews with candidates. Usually, I prepared technical tasks and questions aimed at testing practical skills and understanding of key Python concepts such as working with collections, generators, asynchronous programming, and OOP.

During the interview, I asked questions, reviewed the candidate's solutions, discussed their approaches, and provided feedback. I also conducted pair programming to assess the candidate's ability to think and solve problems in real-time.

An example of a question I might ask:

# Write a function that takes a list of numbers and returns a new list,
# containing only unique elements, preserving the order of their first appearance.

def unique_elements(lst):
    seen = set()
    result = []
    for item in lst:
        if item not in seen:
            seen.add(item)
            result.append(item)
    return result

Thus, I helped identify the candidate's level of knowledge and their ability to apply it in practice.