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      Web Developer Interview

      24 Aug 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Edline (Chicago, IL) in Aug 2010

      Interview

      Began with an online IQ/personality test. Only feedback was that I did well. Several weeks went by and my recruiter had to pressure Edline to next steps. Edline requested sample code which I sent, then set up a face to face. The recruiter said I was the first to get to a face-to-face. Interviewed with two staff members, a developer and a manager. Very pleasant experience which seemed to go well. Good interview questions. Explained they had a home grown framework and did not use the usual open source solutions like Spring and Hibernate. Interviewed with the original web site developer and (I am guessing) an architect (although he never heard of several common technologies I mentioned and was taking notes). The "home grown" framework was restated to be a set of utilities rather than a framework. Oddly, the architect stated that after six months he was still learning it. I asked if they used any open source software and that seemed to cause some concern. They indicated they were looking at JSF. They also asked about outside technical interests. I mentioned Groovy and Grails. The architect said that Groovy would fail because it was "too slow". The other guy said he liked Scala better, although he seemed to know that functional expressions are available in Groovy as well. The arrangement appears to be everyone works on their own with little oversight. They claim to have never lost a developer (they use the term "engineer"). I could not verify this but I can say I would not have been comfortable there. It seemed to me to be a good place for heads down developers with no interest in recommending new technologies. The only feedback I received was that Edline was going to take a pass.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What Java type is best used to represent money?
      2 Answers
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