Overview
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Looking to add a new developer to your team? Learn how to prepare for and conduct interviews to accurately assess a candidate's technical aptitude and overall fit.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Technical interviews
- Prepared interviewing yields better results
- Techniques, questions to ask, and follow-up
- Technical skills and soft skills
- Have a list of questions ready to use
- Request sample code
- Analyze the resume and cover letter
- Alphabet soup and why they cook it
- Neutral vocal tone and body language
- Warm up for a good candidate
- My list of questions
- Think back to a system from five years ago
- The alphabet soup on a resume
- The weirdest bug you've ever encountered
- Drill down on object orientation
- Hypothetical app needs
- Dinner with an industry luminary
- Deeper questions
- What's your philosophy of user interface design?
- Comparing platforms
- Pros and cons of agile methodologies
- How do you become familiar with new technologies?
- Questions about n-tier architectures
- No-win situations
- Team work and individual work
- User experience
- Let the candidate ask questions
- When a candidate isn't a good fit
- Offer advice to an unsuccessful candidate
- Set expectations for what happens next
- Write down impressions immediately
- Reference checking
- First impressions
- Listen more than you talk
- Work on your listening skills
- Additional listening tips
- Steer the interview
- Avoid too much socializing
- Business focus or technology focus
- Taking notes
- Interviewing as a team
- Next steps
