Interview Questions

Introductions

• Openers

  • Our Team
  • Summarize my work history
  • Summarize your work history
  • Questions for us (before and after interview)

• Questions regarding our mission

  • What is it you like about our mission?

• Environment and Work Preferences

  • Preferred development environment (OS, IDE)
  • Preferred workplace environment (office, sit/stand desk, open floorplan)
  • What is your preferred professional communication style? (email, text, chat, face-to-face)

Team Interaction

• How do you coordinate work with remote members of your team?
• Tell me about the most frustrating person you've ever had to work with.
• What did you like most about someone who mentored you.
• Tell me something you've learned from being a mentor.
• How would one of your peers/coworkers describe you?
• How would your previous manager describe you using only three words?

Personality

Work/Life Balance

• If you had unlimited resources, what would you do?
• When I google you, what will I find?
• What are your hobbies outside of work?
• Tabs or spaces? But wait... how many, and for which language?
• Do you attend any meetups? Which ones? Why?

Education

• What is your learning style? (hearing, doing, writing, reading, etc)
• Where do you, typically, find new information? (podcasts, news outlets, etc)

Interview Improvement

• What is a question you wish I'd asked?
• What is the most interesting/best interview question you've ever heard?
• What is the scariest interview question?
• If we could learn just one thing about you, what would you like it to be?

Technical

HTML

• What does a doctype do?
• What is the difference between cookie, sessionStorage, and localStorage?

CSS

• CSS Vanilla

  • What is the difference between a class and an ID in CSS?
  • Describe z-index and what it does.
  • Describe media queries and how they are used for mobile specific layouts in CSS
  • How would you implement a web design comp that uses a non-standard font?
  • What does {box-sizing: border-box; } do?

• SCSS / SASS / LESS

• • What is your favorite css compiler?

Programming Tests

These are general questions. Feel free to use any language you prefer, including pseudo code

• Convert a list of comma-separated words into an array (one,two,three,red,yellow,green)
• How would you strip whitespace from a string?
• How would you determine if a string contains only numbers?
• Given an array of 5 words, sort it by the longest word.

Testing

• What testing frameworks have you used?
• Define unit, functional, and system tests.

HTTP

• What is the difference between GET and POST?
• What is a cookie?

Javascript

• What is the difference between an undefined and a null variable?
• Can you explain AJAX?
• What javascript frameworks and libraries have you used?
• What is the difference between var and let when declaring a variable?

PHP

• What is a php session and how do they differ from cookies?
• How do you sanitize user data for a call to exec?
• What is the difference between == and ===?

MySQL

• How comfortable are you with MySQL / SQL?
• What is the difference between MyISAM and InnoDB?
• How can you tell if a query is using an index?
• Using this Database Tables printout:
  • Query for a list of users. Return their id's and their first names.
  • Write a query that returns the number of comments for article 1234.
  • Write a query that returns the top 10 articles with the most comments.
• Using this Code Samples printout:
  • What is wrong with the code in sample 1?
  • What is wrong with the code in sample 2?
• What is a trigger?
• What is a transaction?

MongoDB

• Search a collection for documents that contain an 'id' of '1234'.
• What is a Map Reduce?

Git/Github/SVN

• How do you work on your section of code without interfering with the rest of the team?
• How do you create a new git repository?
• How do you handle merge conflicts?

Scrum

• here anything you think is missing from Scrum?
• When estimating, what do points indicate?
• What challenges have you faced working with a Scrum team?
• Give me an overview of a retrospective meeting.
• What does a story look like?
• How might you help a team find a strong sense of purpose?
• What types of dysfunction might you encounter on a team? (5 dysfunctions of a team)
• How would you deal with those dysfunctions?
• How would you encourage everyone to openly express their opinions?
• How might you help the team identify positive and negative changes during retrospectives?
• How would you help the team to find techniques to help them be more collaborative?
• How would you help and encourage healthy conflict during team meetings?
• Do a fake sprint planning of a snow day; clear the snow from a big box store.

Team Sell

Team Sell Interview Questions