Discussion on: What are some good Interview questions?

[Ben Halpern]

Here are a few from our lists based on a recent process....

A few about communication, adaptability, working styles.

• Your priorities are not always going to be cleanly described to you. How do discover priorities and communicate your workflow to your manager?
• How do you handle asynchronous working styles and the communication concerns that can be introduced?
• Tell us how one of your projects suffered a setback due to an unexpected change in circumstances.

About JavaScript.

• Could you talk about a recent accessibility issue you worked on and what you learned from it? It can be any aspect of accessibility.
• Could you explain asynchronous programming in JavaScript? What are some ways you can make things perform better in JavaScript?
• Do you think code style linting tools are important and why?
• What is the most common npm package you add to most of your code and why?

[Waylon Walker]

Those are great suggestions @ben ! For my exact use case we have a set of good behavior based questions, we lack any technical questions. I think historically this is because we let their credentials (degree/experience) stand for that.

I Like the JavaScript questions, its dipping a toe into the technical side still much from the behavior perspective. I can definitely work from those!

[Mike Bybee]

@ben I love that you emphasize async communication. Not nearly enough bosses do.