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Questions

• Name a design pattern
• What do you like about JavaScript, what do you hate about it?
• What languages in the future are you most excited about?
• What are the drawbacks of TDD? When would you not do it?
• Why are cache invalidation and naming things considered the hardest things in programming?
• How would you deploy code to production?
• What's your favourite blog?
• What’s some code you’re most proud of writing? Why?
• What excites or interests you about coding?
• Why are “hackers” or “hacky code” looked down upon? Doesn’t it mean you write quicker code?
• Why do you want to work here?
• What is a recent technical challenge you experienced and how did you solve it?
• What do you find hardest about programming?
• Do you consider yourself a front-end or back-end developer? Why? Should there be a difference?
• How do you debug?
• What would you do if you were pressed for a deadline?
• Which programmers do you look up to?
• How much do you document your code?
• What’s your process for using/learning about gems?
• How would you go about getting up to speed at our company?
• How would you build an API? What language would you use?
• Why do companies increasingly move towards using micro services?
• What’s your coding set up?
• Do you use git? Why?
• Describe your workflow
• Have you ever used a grid system, and if so, what do you prefer?
• What is CRUD?
• What is the advantage in designing a RESTful API?
• What are the benefits of a SQL database over other types of data-stores?
• What’s the longest you’ve struggled on a problem?
• How often do you refactor your code?
• What do you think about web sockets?
• Tell me something cool you found out about coding recently
• What do you like least about programming?
• If you weren’t a coder what would you be?
• What does array inject do?
• What’s wrong with the error message “undefined is not a function"?
• What do we mean when we say Ruby is a human readable language?
• What is the Principle of Least Astonishment?
• What’s the difference between node and javascript
• Why do we bother following DRY? Isn’t it easier just to copy and paste?
• When should you raise exceptions?
• What do we mean by prototypical inheritance?
• What’s the point in writing clear git commit methods?