Questions you may be asked in a web developer interview

These are some interview questions you may come across when going for an interview for a Web Developer job. These roles can be contract or permanent but the questions stay relatively the same. I recruit for various technology and digital projects and the most prosperous candidates are those who can explain in detail about their development tasks, have a problem solving mind-set and a great portfolio.

Job Interview Questions

• What industry sites and blogs do you read regularly?
• Why did you get into coding?
• Going forward, what skills are you most interested in learning?
• What sized websites have you worked on previously?
• Show me your code/GitHub account/portfolio!
• From a web development perspective, what are a few sites you appreciate and why?
• What’s your favourite development language and why? If you could add any more features to this, what would it be?
• What are a few personal web projects you are undertaking at the moment?
• If I pull up the website you’ve built and it shows a blank page in the browser, what are the steps you would undertake to resolve the problem.
• What web browser do you use and what toolbars do you have installed to enhance your experience?
• What’s the real difference between HTML and HTML5?
• What are some new HTML5 mark-up elements?
• What are the new image elements in HTML5?
• What are some of the major API’s that come with the standard HTML5?
• If my hyperlink or image is not displaying correctly, what is wrong with it?
• Have you used MVC before? What do you like/dislike about it?
• What are the differences between AngularJS and Backbone.js?
• What is the difference between null and undefined?
• Have you used Sass? What do you like about it?

Technical Questions/Exercises

• How comfortable are you in writing HTML by hand? (This may include an exercise)
• Can you write table-less XHTML?
• Can you fix this broken code?
• What is the difference between <div> and <frame>?
• How do you optimize a website’s assets?
• What are three ways to reduce page load time?
• What kind of things would you have to look out for when designing or developing multilingual sites?
• Which of the below is the best way of organizing your JavaScript code?
• What is the syntax difference between a bulleted list and numbered list?
• What is the new DOCTYPE?

I hope these questions help you to prepare for your next digital role, if you would like any more advice then please feel free to get in touch with a member of the digital recruitment team here at Reuben Sinclair. 

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