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Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#2
Hey all,

Saw a similar link a few weeks back on a list of questions for front-end website designers. I thought it was a really great lists for people looking to hire a programmer/designer here in the new year, so wanted to make something similar for iOS, as we may be hiring and it would be useful to have this on hand.

This is an early work in progress, but suggestions/PRs would be much appreciated!

Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#3

Hey all, Saw a similar link a few weeks back on a list of questions for front-end website designers. I thought it was a really great lists for people looking to hire a programmer/designer here in the new year, so wanted to make something similar for iOS, as we may be hiring and it would be useful to have this on hand. This is an early work in progress, but suggestions/PRs would be much appreciated!

would love to see similar list for android as well !!

Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#4
If you're in a situation where the best way you have to assess a candidate is to ask them questions, I'd recommend focusing on types of questions that open up room for discussion about how the candidate thinks and works rather than simply asking trivia questions about Apple's frameworks.

In context of iOS/Obj-C/Cocoa, ask about MVC. Ask about delegates versus blocks versus notifications as mechanisms of communicating between objects. Ask about CocoaPods, but framed as a larger question of when and how to bring in and manage third-party dependencies versus building them yourself. Give them the opportunity to share how they think, not just what they know.

Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#5

Hey all, Saw a similar link a few weeks back on a list of questions for front-end website designers. I thought it was a really great lists for people looking to hire a programmer/designer here in the new year, so wanted to make something similar for iOS, as we may be hiring and it would be useful to have this on hand. This is an early work in progress, but suggestions/PRs would be much appreciated!

would love to see similar list for android as well !!

Was hoping to work on this next week, as we do a bunch of Android work as well and it would be useful for us! I'll link in this repo when I get that up.

Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#7
How does any of this prove they are a good candidate? All this proves is they can remember things. When coding all if not 99% of these questions are a 4 second Google away.

And most of them are also opinions which tend to lead to bias. "Oh this user doesn't like Xcode, while I only use Xcode, so nope to him".

Re: iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions

#9

Hey all, Saw a similar link a few weeks back on a list of questions for front-end website designers. I thought it was a really great lists for people looking to hire a programmer/designer here in the new year, so wanted to make something similar for iOS, as we may be hiring and it would be useful to have this on hand. This is an early work in progress, but suggestions/PRs would be much appreciated!

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