To understand how experienced a Web Developer really is, you must understand what options they have, because experience may differ from how your company views it from the other companies. Look from a Developer’s perspective as if you are a developer yourself:
1 – You can work for someone (a company)
2 – You can work for yourself (freelancing)
3 – You can work for someone AND yourself (do freelancing on the side)
Here are a few questions you can ask them:
1. Tell me about a project you are particularly proud of. What did you do that worked out well?
It is best to ease your developer candidate into the interview gently. Their response will also give you an early indication of their ambitions and perceived view of success and way of working. For example, did they mention other team members during their answer, or just focus on their own efforts?
2. Tell me about a project that disappointed you. What would you change?
Continuous self-evaluation is a must for a developer. You do not want to employ someone who continues to make the same mistakes.
3. What is hard about coding?
This is, for all intents and purposes, another way of asking the web developer what his/her weaknesses are from a technical perspective.
4. How do you do testing? And what do you think about this? How would you improve QA?
Good code means a less buggy web applications and fewer coding crises. A good web developer should value testing and respect the QA process, because it will cut down on the number of late nights where they try to find an issue which has been uncovered in the code.
5. How are you keeping up with the latest developments in web development?
In other words, this will determine if your candidate continues to learn programming and makes the effort to stay on top of his skills. You can ask your candidate about their favourite programming-related Twitter accounts and why they like it, for example. If your candidate does not use Twitter, ask which tech publications they read and authors or personalities in the dev world they admire and why. Web development is always changing, so being curious about the latest trends and forming opinions about them is typically a good sign.
6. Talk about your preferred development environment
It does not matter whether your candidate is working with your exact development environment or not — but you do need to find someone who is adaptable to different environments and will voice their opinions. It will also give you an indication of whether they have experience with frameworks, version control systems, unit testing, and others.
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