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2 Top-Shelf Interview Questions to Ask Your Senior Front-End Engineering Candidates

Senior software engineers don’t come cheap. With the average compensation for this level of developer averaging about $167,000 , making the wrong hire could be terrible news for your hiring budget – not to mention your team’s productivity and morale. The skills needed to become a senior front-end engineer are not trivial. There’s a reason they can command such high salaries, and can be so hard to find these days. That’s why making sure you ask the right questions in a technical interview is so important.

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3 Design Skills You Should Look For In Front-End Candidates

A user-friendly design is an integral part of any application. As such, ensuring that your future front-end engineers have excellent design skills is essential to any interviews you have with them. Hiring a front-end engineer without design skills is like making a car that only goes in reverse – it’ll work, but no one in their right mind would use it. While the particular design skills you’ll need will depend on your company, project, and team, there are general skill sets that are helpful in front-end engineers no matter what they’re going to build.

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How to Assess for 3 Critical Soft Skills in Front-End Developers

Would you hire an engineer who could create beautiful websites but who was constantly arguing with their teammates? What about a developer who is extremely productive, but doesn’t adhere to industry and team standards? Depending on how desperate you are, you might take your chances with candidates like these – but be warned, you risk a lot of wasted time, frustration, and reduced team morale having these kinds of people on your team.

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Two Technical Questions to Ask Your Intermediate Front-End Engineering Candidates

An intermediate engineer – aka “an engineer” – is usually the most common development role you’re hiring for. Building an excellent interview experience for this career level is therefore extremely important to your hiring process. One of the leading interviewing best practices we recommend is to develop questions that accurately assess skills and match the candidate’s experience level – but what does that look like for an intermediate front-end developer?

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Building a Better Future for Data Teams with Live Technical Interviews

How should data teams work smarter in the future — and can better technical interviews help them do it? These were just some of the many thought-provoking questions I recently talked through with Boris Jabes of Census on his podcast, The Sequel Show . We covered everything from the overlap between interviewing and creating collaborative tech organizations to what a perfect KPI for data teams might look like. Whether you’re a data analyst, an engineering manager, or are just interested in the changing face of interviewing, there’s something for everyone in this conversation. Here are some of the highlights.

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3 Great Technical Questions to Ask Your Junior Front-End Engineering Candidates

Senior engineers are hard to come by –so many companies have started to focus on hiring junior developers to train up rather than pay the hefty price tag for intermediate and senior developers. However, hiring a good junior front-end developer isn’t as simple as having them solve an algorithm question on a whiteboard. We’ve previously talked about how important it is to develop interview questions that accurately assess skills and match the candidate’s experience – but what does that look like for a junior front-end developer?

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A Holistic Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Technical Hiring Process

Today, diversity and inclusion present a major opportunity for the tech industry. Research shows that a diverse workforce leads to higher performance and more resilient companies — and we’ve all got room to improve where representation , pay , and hiring are concerned. A 2021 survey of over 2,000 early-career tech workers and 270 business leaders by market research firm Wiley revealed that 68% of polled businesses feel there isn’t enough diversity in their tech workforce. Nearly a quarter said they didn’t know how to address the issue.

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How to Run Front-End Developer Interviews That Don’t Suck

Interviewing developers is hard. Even if you’ve been doing it for 14 years, you’re spending a lot of time and energy to ensure you find the right candidate AND show the candidate why they should want to work for you. And, of course, there’s always the risk that you spend all that effort on the wrong candidate. The one who lied about their coding skills , doesn’t work well on a team, or simply doesn’t know how to communicate.

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Dev Diaries: How We Make Pair Programming Interviews Easy with Duplicate Pads

One interview early in my career left such a mark on me that it changed the way I approach technical interviews ever since. The first step: I was given a take-home assignment to write a program that would round dollar amounts to the nearest five cents. The best part about this assignment? I got to pick which language to use out of three options. Then, I submitted the assignment, somebody reviewed it, and I got called in for a live interview. They gave me the heads up to come in familiar with the code I had submitted.

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