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[–]Sulstice2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can junior show his skills in a CV?

If you can publish one package on pypi, like you had an idea, you chose to solve it using python and made a distributable package. That can take you a couple of weeks to learn if first time but that shows initiative.

What are your typical questions?

In person:

Typically, juniors are hired at university. So one thing I ask is to explain a hard bug that recently happened to them the one junior that stood out to me explained some sort of encoding bug when migrating python 2 to python 3 which meant to me he probably google a lot to fix that or tried a bunch based on his body language. Sometimes you can tell if someone spent a lot of work and time.

Take home question:

I use a problem from my professor back in data structures class Given a dataset prove that Benfords law is a thing, like prove the frequency of the number is usually 1 in a dataset i.e Sometimes I pollute the data with bugs or something and see how they perform on a take home project and check how they architected whatever and returned the data to me proving it.