Interview tips
Developer interview tips
Developer interviews usually have a coding round and a talk about your projects. Explain your thinking out loud.
What to bring
- Resume with links to your GitHub or projects
- Degree marksheets
- A laptop, if they ask you to
- Experience letters and last salary slips
And the usual: a photo ID with a photocopy, your resume if you have one, and two passport-size photos.
Questions they often ask
Tell me about a project you built.
Say what it does, what you built yourself, the tools you used and one problem you solved.
Solve this coding problem.
Ask questions first, talk through a simple solution, then improve it. Test with a small example.
What happens when you open a website?
Explain DNS, the request to the server, the response and the browser drawing the page.
How do you use Git?
Talk about branches, commits, pull requests and fixing merge conflicts.
What to show them
Clear thinking on problemsYour own projectsReading and writing clean codeWorking with a team
Good questions to ask
- What will I work on first?
- How does the team review code?
- Is it work from office, hybrid or remote?
For any interview
The basics, from the day before to the offer letter: how to get ready for a job interview.
Stay safe
- Never pay anyone to get an interview or a job: no registration fee, no training fee, no uniform deposit.
- Never hand over your original documents to keep. Showing them is fine; they can keep photocopies.
- Don't share OTPs, bank PINs or passwords. No real employer needs them.
- Go to interviews at an office or a public place in the daytime, and tell someone where you are going.
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