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Ask HN: What should I look for when hiring a junior developer?
I've got experience hiring developers, and I'm used to asking a mixture of technical questions and interview questions to gauge a person's skill and their passion.
However, my company is now hiring for a junior developer position. I'm completely baffled at how to approach the interviews. I feel like I can't ask my usual technical questions because we're specifically hiring under that skill level. What's a good way to get a read on somebody's ability to learn new things in an interview?
- jhwhite 12y agoWhat language(s) are you hiring for? I asked a Python lead this question the other day and here's what he told me: for a junior, then i'd probably quiz them on some of the fundamental types of python tuple vs list what does it mean to be immutable vs mutable what's a dictionary how to define a class probe them for their understanding of reference counting in cPython (assuming that's what you guys use) if they're coming from a CS background or development with C/C++/Java/etc, ask them for how they think python compares to the other languages especially dynamic vs static typing