iteration

💬 Technical Interviews

Episode Summary

This week JP + John talk through technical interviews. Give war stories from interviews they have been given, tips on how to go through them and tips on giving technical interviews.

Episode Notes

Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design

John has been asked:

• When I perform a google search, what happens? Be as specific and accurate as possible including every layer of technology.
• Can you tell me what Indexes are and what they do?
• What is CORS?

Questions JP has been asked:

• What is the difference between something like SQL and Mongo - what are the trade offs?
• How does the JS bridge work in React Native?
• Describe what Redux is for and how you'd implement it in a React project

Maybe some from our own?

• If you could add one feature or change to the Rails framework what would it be?
• How do feel about testing? How do you think about testing? When does it make sense to write tests?
• If I have a really huge model, let's say 500+ lines, how would you go about refactoring it? Example link: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/post.rb

Picks

JP: https://tuple.app/

• I used this to pair with Joe and it was SICK

John: YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com/)

• Different approach to budgeting that sucks less