Open Ended Questions

Question 1

What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?

Answer 1

Reliable
Flexible
Tactful
Leader?

Question 2

What are some practices you use to help prevent a developer on the team from breaking the build? When the build does break, how do you help fix it?

Answer 2

Code Reviews
StyleCop
Pair Programming?

Question 3

What do you do when you get stuck with a problem you can’t solve?

Answer 3

Communicate to the team
Stack Overflow
Sleep on it
Documentation
Working Examples
Stack Trace
Tutorials
Documentations

Question 4

What do you do when you get stuck with a problem you can’t solve?

Answer 4

Communicate to the team
Stack Overflow
Get away from the problem
Documentation
Working Examples
Stack Trace
Tutorials
Documentations

Question 5

Describe to me some bad code you’ve read or inherited lately.

Answer 5

Using and if statement to evaluate a model’s variable without checking if the variable even exists

Question 6

Describe to me some bad code you’ve read or inherited lately.

Answer 6

Using and if statement to evaluate a model’s variable without checking if the variable even exist causing a error during runtime

Question 7

What 3 books are you currently reading?

Answer 7

Cracking the coding interview

What did you learn?

Question 8

Can you tell me about a recent project or process that you made better, faster, smarter or more efficient?

Answer 8

Can you tell me about a recent project or process that you made better, faster, smarter or more efficient?

Question 9

You’ve just been assigned to a project involving a new technology. How would you get started?

Answer 9

You’ve just been assigned to a project involving a new technology. How would you get started?

Question 10

What technology-related blogs, podcasts, tweets or websites do you follow? Do you share any information yourself online?

Answer 10

What technology-related blogs, podcasts, tweets or websites do you follow? Do you share any information yourself online?

Question 11

How do you keep your technology skills current?

Answer 11

How do you keep your technology skills current?

Question 12

Can you tell me about a time when things didn’t go the way you wanted at work, such as a project that failed or being passed over for a promotion?

Answer 12

Can you tell me about a time when things didn’t go the way you wanted at work, such as a project that failed or being passed over for a promotion?

Question 13

What are your favorite and least favorite technology products, and why?

Answer 13

What are your favorite and least favorite technology products, and why?

Question 14

Are you using code from GitHub or contributing code to an open-source project in GitHub? Do you answer questions on Stack Overflow

Answer 14

Are you using code from GitHub or contributing code to an open-source project in GitHub? Do you answer questions on Stack Overflow

Question 15

What are some practices you use to help prevent a developer on the team from breaking the build? When the build does break, how do you help fix it?

Answer 15

What are some practices you use to help prevent a developer on the team from breaking the build? When the build does break, how do you help fix it?

Question 16

What do you do when you get stuck with a problem you can’t solve?

Answer 16

What do you do when you get stuck with a problem you can’t solve?

Question 17

Describe to me some bad code you’ve read or inherited lately.

Answer 17

Describe to me some bad code you’ve read or inherited lately.

Question 18

Please describe the architecture of your most recent project.

Answer 18

Please describe the architecture of your most recent project.

Question 19

What lessons have you learned from your current project?

Answer 19

What lessons have you learned from your current project?

Question 20

Let’s see some code.

Answer 20

Let’s see some code.