How to blow me away in your entry level Software Engineering Interview
It’s never been a better time to be a software engineer in Silicon Valley.
It’s never been a better time to be a software engineer in Silicon Valley. If you’re going out for your first “real world” software development job, here are the main things I hope you’ll come in *already* having a decent handle on:
- MVC (Model–view–controller paradigm)\
- DOM Manipulation (Perhaps with JQuery)\
- How HTML Templating Frameworks operate (you could do worse than using Mustache)\
- Client-Side vs Server-Side frameworks (example: AngularJS with NodeJS)\
- RESTful Routing (Rails has them built-in)\
- How CSS Frameworks operate (e.g. Bootstrap)\
- SQL Table & Index Design (how would you optimize an SQL query to be faster?)\
- ORM (Sequelize for NodeJS seems to be well-documented)\
- Page Caching & Partial Caching (Rails still has an amazing caching layer)\
- Git or Mercurial Source Code Management (just put your project on GitHub already!)\
- TDD (Test Driven Development, and CasperJS is pretty good)\
- Documentation formatting (like JSDoc).\
- OAuth (implement signin with google, twitter, or facebook)
The best way to show me you have a decent handle on them, is to make an open source app that’s available on GitHub and deployed on Heroku – all for free!