Basic Interview Questions

Question 1

Tell us a bit about Nearform as a company and our values

Answer 1

Build Digital products and solutions for businesses and engineers
modernization of apps and platforms
Improve time to market, deploy and scale faster and more easily

Values : Innovation, Open Source Users and Contributors, Collaboration

Question 2

Whay do you want to work here?

Answer 2

I want to utilize the skills that I have in Python, Database Engineering and AWS development, growth them further but also have the opportunity to move into new areas. I’d love to do some front end work with React and Redux, more node.js - I’m interested in Full stack development.
The opportunity to work with differemt clients and engineers internal/external would be really beneficial - share ideas, push myself
New challenges
The opportunity to contribute to open source
You’re view as a really good company on glassdoor
Thinkers, doers, makers - I want to build and show off what I’ve done

Question 3

Talk me through your career/work history

Question 4

Why are you looking for work/ why did you leave your last role

Question 5

What technologies have you used?

Answer 5

Not just languages but specifically things like frameworks and testing tools

Python : Django, Flask, Pandas (ML course), Unittest, pytest
pip, pyenv, venv, poetry, mypy, black, flake8
pycharm, vscode

Question 6

how do you do string manipulation in Python?

Answer 6

strings, loops, splits, joins

Question 7

what is celery and redis?

Answer 7

celery is a distributed task queue
redis is a message broker and in-memory data structure