Questions You May Be Asked During an Interview for Web Developer Position

Interviewing  Intermediate Web Developer’s Name:_____________

1. How is your experience relevant to this job?

2. What environments allow you to be more effective?

3. What situations excite and motivate you?

4. How have you handled criticism of your work?

5. Compare this job to others you are perusing.

6. What’s your dream job?

7. What industry sites and blogs do you read regularly?

8. Do you prefer to work alone or on a team? Please explain your point.

9. How comfortable are you with writing XHTML entirely by hand?
Please write HTML code for simple for transitional XHTML page:
with:
• all basic meta tags (as more as you think necessary),
• link to external sample.css file
• link to external sample.js file
• table with 2 rows and 2 columns,
• text link to external page,
• image link to external page
• insert image to the page
• embed iframe

10. Please provide links to your recently completed project. Please explain your role in the projects.
Example: Single web developer or/and web designer, web developer or/and web designer in the team…11. Can you write table-less XHTML? Do you validate your code?
Please write example of table-less XHTML page. We want to see sample of code.

12. What are a few of your favorite development tools and why?

13. What skills and technologies are you the most interested in improving upon or learning?

14. Provide link to your portfolio. Please explain why you build it this way.

15. What sized websites have you worked on in the past?
Please provide link and describe scope of the projects.

16. What are a few sites you admire and why? (from a webdev perspective)

17. I just pulled up the website someone’s built and the browser is displaying a blank page. Walk us through the steps you’d take to troubleshoot the problem.

18. What’s your favorite development language and why? What other features (if any) do you wish you could add to this language?

19. Do you find any particular languages or technologies intimidating?

20. What web browser do you use and why?

21. What are a few personal web projects you’ve got going on?