Fix this code, please.

Interviewing Web Developers - Good Questions to Ask

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13. Fix this code, please.

Give them some broken code written in the development language they are expected to know for the position. Have them go through it line by line and point out all the mistakes.

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Other Interview Questions

• What industry sites and blogs do you read regularly?
• Do you prefer to work alone or on a team?
• How comfortable are you with writing HTML entirely by hand? (+exercise)
• What is the w3c?
• Can you write table-less XHTML? Do you validate your code?
• What are a few of your favorite development tools and why?
• Describe/demonstrate your level of competence in a *nix shell environment
• What skills and technologies are you the most interested in improving upon or learning?
• Show me your portfolio!
• What sized websites have you worked on in the past?
• Show me your code!
• What are a few sites you admire and why? (from a webdev perspective)
• Fix this code, please.
• I just pulled up the website you built and the browser is displaying a blank page. Walk me through the steps you'd take to troubleshoot the problem.
• What's your favorite development language and why? What other features (if any) do you wish you could add to this language?
• Do you find any particular languages or technologies intimidating?
• Acronym time (oh boy!)
• What web browser do you use?
• What are a few personal web projects you've got going on?.