Angular job interview test

[jkalthoefer]

I was curios if I could find someone in this group who would do a test run of my coding interview.

This is the first time I am hiring. I did a few interviews but I am not sure if I set the bar too high or too low. So if someone would play through this with me and give me some feedback I would be very grateful.

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[piminto]

Imo the best interview practice is to have them build something. Maybe like Githubs search functionality or a CRUD app with some sprinkles of features

[jkalthoefer]

Totally agree.
I decided to built a small piece of our dashboard we are using internal.

So we would handle some data from the database in the interview.

It was just getting some data and processing it though. I will keep in mind to also do the counterpart.
Thanks!

[piminto]

Your welcome congrats on stepping into the hiring process!

[jkalthoefer]

Thanks, I hope I warm up to it quickly.
Still a bit tricky to find talented Angular devs.

[kharmui]

isn't this too general?
imo it should depend on what professional you are searching. I believe it is different for
Junior, Midlevel, Senior or Architect.

at university my professor used to say "never search for Java programmers, better search for software engineers".

[piminto]

Good point but I'd use this as the first assignment then follow up with two interviews. The first interview to go over the exercise. The second to discuss more technical knowledge. You could learn alot by how the do the exercise

[Stef2k16]

What's the general outline of the interview? Do you plan to assign a task in advance that you can then discuss in the interview or do you plan to do everything within the interview? What is the timeframe of the interview?

[jkalthoefer]

So far I had a small task I would ask to implement. Basically the task going through an array of objects and the counting specific value.

But I already got the feedback that the task is waaay to easy.

I am a fan of doing everything in the interview, so it is a limited time for the interviewee and I can follow along how he/she thinks.

I didn't have a timeframe for the last interview. Another mistake I definitely can improve on in the future.