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Provide the candidate with a genuine programming test in the interview - a laptop hooked up to a projector with a broken project, with a mixture of basic to complex bugs, and ask them to add some functionality, again ranging from basic to moderately complex. This is something nobody can really study for and will actually provide a showcase of their skills. Have technical people there talking to the candidate to get a feel for their personality and how they approach the problems faced.

For the job interview for my current role, I had spent 2 weeks studying programming principles, design patterns, database stuff etc. I was able to answer all the theoretical questions well and think I came across well

I was then handed a laptop which was connected up to the projector and shown a solution which contained a broken website with a defined number of errors which I had to debug and add some simple functionality. While I wasn't very familiar with the front-end framework used by the company, I was able to fix about half the bugs and then give my best guess as to what the causes were for the remaining bugs based on what I could see, and this was good enough to get me in the door.

The whole thing, between the theoretical questions and the website debugging session lasted about 2 hours.

Provide the candidate with a genuine programming test in the interview - a laptop hooked up to a projector with a broken project, with a mixture of basic to complex bugs, and ask them to add some functionality, again ranging from basic to moderately complex. This is something nobody can really study for and will actually provide a showcase their skills. Have technical people there talking to the candidate to get a feel for their personality and how they approach the problems faced.

For the job interview for my current role, I had spent 2 weeks studying programming principles, design patterns, database stuff etc. I was able to answer all the theoretical questions well and think I came across well

I was then handed a laptop which was connected up to the projector and shown a solution which contained a broken website with a defined number of errors which I had to debug and add some simple functionality. While I wasn't very familiar with the front-end framework used by the company, I was able to fix about half the bugs and then give my best guess as to what the causes were for the remaining bugs based on what I could see, and this was good enough to get me in the door.

The whole thing, between the theoretical questions and the website debugging session lasted about 2 hours.

Provide the candidate with a genuine programming test in the interview - a laptop hooked up to a projector with a broken project, with a mixture of basic to complex bugs, and ask them to add some functionality, again ranging from basic to moderately complex. This is something nobody can really study for and will actually provide a showcase of their skills. Have technical people there talking to the candidate to get a feel for their personality and how they approach the problems faced.

For the job interview for my current role, I had spent 2 weeks studying programming principles, design patterns, database stuff etc. I was able to answer all the theoretical questions well and think I came across well

I was then handed a laptop which was connected up to the projector and shown a solution which contained a broken website with a defined number of errors which I had to debug and add some simple functionality. While I wasn't very familiar with the front-end framework used by the company, I was able to fix about half the bugs and then give my best guess as to what the causes were for the remaining bugs based on what I could see, and this was good enough to get me in the door.

The whole thing, between the theoretical questions and the website debugging session lasted about 2 hours.

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user1666620
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Provide the candidate with a genuine programming test in the interview - a laptop hooked up to a projector with a broken project, with a mixture of basic to complex bugs, and ask them to add some functionality, again ranging from basic to moderately complex. This is something nobody can really study for and will actually provide a showcase their skills. Have technical people there talking to the candidate to get a feel for their personality and how they approach the problems faced.

For the job interview for my current role, I had spent 2 weeks studying programming principles, design patterns, database stuff etc. I was able to answer all the theoretical questions well and think I came across well

I was then handed a laptop which was connected up to the projector and shown a solution which contained a broken website with a defined number of errors which I had to debug and add some simple functionality. While I wasn't very familiar with the front-end framework used by the company, I was able to fix about half the bugs and then give my best guess as to what the causes were for the remaining bugs based on what I could see, and this was good enough to get me in the door.

The whole thing, between the theoretical questions and the website debugging session lasted about 2 hours.