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      Senior Web Developer Interview

      6 Jul 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Martinez, CA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bay Alarm (Martinez, CA) in Jun 2012

      Interview

      First was a "culture fit" assesement followed by a bizzar paper essay-style exam modeled on the lead developer's programming style. Then it was followed-up with a number of poorly laid-out coding examples that the candidate is expected to quickly explain the purpose of while the lead developer hovers over your shoulder. Essay questions involved basic OOP theory, singletons, hand-writing a function to build and sort an array, how to install an SSL cert in Apache, SQL injection, etc. The handwritten nature can lead to akwardness if you lean on your development environment for daily work and they seem to be looking for a candidate that has experience with the lead developer's PHP-forum learned style.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Write a singleton method and explain why you would use one.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Write a function to sort an array without using PHP's array functions.
      Answer question
      1