Other side of the table
I never interviewed anybody for a technical position and
currently as one of my team member left our team, I was
assigned to hire a asp.net developer position for our team.
It is quite a experience as you need to filter the resume
based on our requirement. I interviewed three guys so far
and still did not find a good fit. Sometimes, I used to
think whether I am so picky. But my questions are simple and
all I need is a direct answer. This process made me think
like how I would act if I am in other side of the table!
Today I got to interview one person who played lots of
managerial role in various project and only know the basic
concepts of asp.net but this position requires serious
asp.net skill and so I was not comfortable in asking some of
the asp.net specific questions to him (when I know that he
is not going to answer)
My typical questions list was like this.
1. Life cycle of page
2. Difference between Datareaders and Datasets
3. Best feature you like in you asp.net or like to have
4. Explanation of postback
5. Authoring tool they used/Accessibility issue they faced
in their last project
6. State management
7. Difference between Application object and Cache
object
8. Page level error handling
9. Difference between Web User Controls and Web Custom
Controls
and some SQL questions and architectural questions
We are going to keep trying until I find a right guy but our
time is limited too!!