ObsidianJournal/Jose De Jesus interview.md

Positives:

• Speaks excellent English
• Obviously very familiar with Visual Studio, used short cuts like autocompleting property definitions
• Seems very calm and worked immediately, very straightforwardly
• Created well-defined methods on Board to facilitate various functions like "reveal box" and "flag box"
• Able to talk through his work well, explaining as he went along
• Used a nested loop and Math.Max and Math.Min to reveal box around the revealed box
• A user-facing thoughtful thing: he cleared the console at the top of each input loop
• Used StringBuilder to render the board output, but decided against it later

Concerns:

• Didn't appear to come super prepared with the solution in mind
• I'm not 100% certain he read the specification in detail, but relied on his memory of how minesweeper worked

Other comments:

• Created class for MineBox and Board
• Used multi-dimensional array of MineBoxes in Board
• Used Random to set mines randomly around the board
• Used a while loop in Program until bool gameEnded was reached

Questions to ask:

• What could you do to take your game logic and render it any way you wanted to (console, HTML, graphical...)