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# Interview manifesto

...or how to drive your interview and hire people. Based on real life examples and experience.

## General

0. Etiquette

- Say hello!
- Ask how is a candidate?
- Is everything okay?
- Suggest a water/coffee/tea/juice/etc.
- Simple things to make a situation less stressful.

1. Introduce yourself

- Every interview is a stress for a candidate (and also for an interviewer).
- Make the situation more enjoyable.
- Try to make it comfy and relaxed.
- To make this - start a simple dialog.
- Introduce yourself.
- What is your experience?
- Describe your current project.
- How long do you work here?
- What makes it cool?
- (Maybe) what can be done better?

2. Ask about candidates experience

- That's a starting point to understand who is in front of you.
- CV is a good thing, same as Github, Stackoverflow or personal blog.
- But during real conversation you will get much more details.
- Off course if you will ask for them.

3. What technologies are you familiar with?

- You will see how deep or wide candidates knowledge is.
- What parts of your language/framework sucks?
- What other technologies are you interested in but don't have ability to try?
- Any personal projects? own business? or plans?

4. Do not ask 'Why do you want to work here?'

- Money, everything else is a bullshit.

5. Looks for the candidates that:

- Is able to grow with a team (junior-middle)
- Is able to grow a team and company (middle-senior)
- Is able to introduce new things to a team (junior-middle-senior)

## Junior developer

0. TODO

1. Check candidates logic

- Why programming makes candidate happy?
  - money, for sure, as everyone
  - but what makes it more enjoable?
  
- Who does candidate looks for the answer?
  - Is he/she able to Google the answer?

- How a web service can be debugged?
  - is this an app or infra problem?
  - are logs/metrics/traces were mentioned?
  - did someone talk to the teammates?
  
2. Ask computer science basics

- Types of sorting
  - simple question to see compute science background
  
- Why do we need databases?

- What is the type in the language?
  - what is the difference between int and string?
  
- What data structures do we have and why?
  - Splay-tree is cool, but have you used it personally?
  - Don't ask something that goes far beyond regular development day.
  
3. Do not rush into documentation questions

- Don't ask all the implementation of `IList` in language XXX
  - are we interested in those who remembers everything
  - or those who can investigate the problem and find a solution?

## Developer (aka middle developer)

0. TODO

1. How to keep code clean and usable?

- Linters, static analysis tool
- Code review
- Good abstractions
- ...

2. Implement a basic function (like `len`, `map`, `filter` so on)

- You will be amazed how many developers cannnot make it.
- Even with 3+ years of experience.
- Also a good question to switch to the editor and talk about it.

3. Why do we need indexes in databases?

- What type of indexes do we have?
- Pros and cons of them.
- and off course when we do not need them?

4. Ask about previous project in details

- What was the load?
- What about storage?
  - Is everything is fine?
  - Why exactly XXX?

5. Do not expect to see best code ever

- Candidate has a stress.
- Keep errors as something inevitable.
- Care to help after few minutes of stuck.

## Senior developer

0. TODO

1. How to develop a new project?
2. How to build a team?
3. What problems you had on previous jobs?
- how to solve them?
- are you ok that this might appear here too?
4. System design
- How good candidates asks for the clarifications?
- How deeply it explains things?
- Pros and cons before selecting a tool.
- Trade offs.
- Maintain.

## QA
TODO
## DevOps/SRE
TODO
## Team leader
TODO
## Architect
TODO

### Notes

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