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Job Interview Questions

Job Interview Questions

Remote Working

What are your communication/collaboration tools?
How you handle meetings with in-office and remotes?
How do you ensure remote workers stay connected and engaged with the company?

Work Tracking

How do you track work flow? How does work get allocated? How/who determines priority?

Coding Standards

Do you have coding standards?
Do you use automated tools like FxCop?
Is it documented?

Source Control

What source control do you use?
What is your check in policy? What does someone have to do before they check in. Do you check at the end of every day?
Is it documented?

Specifications

Is the coding based on a specification document? Is the coding always based on a specification document?
Who writes the specification document?

Development

Is there a bug database / bug tracker?
Feature vs bug priority (Microsoft uses 'Zero Defects Policy' - all known bugs fixed first)
What are the working conditions like? (noisy vs quiet etc)
Machine specs, dual screens etc
Visual Studio Professional vs Visual Studio Team System etc

Building

Can you make a build in one step?
Do you do overnight builds?

Testing

Do you use automated testing? Overnight testing?
Who tests?
Are there test plans / test scripts? Who writes them?

Database Access

What sort of access to live database do developers have?

Backups

Is there a backup policy for local machines?

Deployment

How does your company handle software deployment? What tools do you use?
How often do you deploy to production?

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