Programming interview questions

Posted on 2014-09-25 Updated on 2016-04-06

At my last company I was a team lead and, as such, was one of those responsible for interviewing new candidates. Although I didn’t enjoy the process much, I did become interested in the sorts of technical questions / exercises we could set to get a good judge of a candidate’s abilities.

Developer interviews typically cross a number of disciplines (often arranged in stages) that may include:

1. a CV / résumé screening
2. a telephone interview
3. face-to-face questions and answers
4. a technical exercise or written test to be done at home, or to be done in front of the interviewers

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