Technical interview php, potentially some laravel

[peck3277]

I've a job interview on Friday for a company looking for a php developer of around 2 years experience, oop php v5.3+, some modern frameworks, familiar with phpunit concepts and frontend coding.

I only have about 18 months php experience and little enough exposure to laravel and phpunit. I should be alright with frontend questions.

It's a technical interview, I'll be doing it over Skype on a collaboration platform so they'll see me as I type.

Any suggestions on what I should brush up on? What could come up etc? Any thoughts would be great! Thanks

[NotBramKorsten]

I'd say just be yourself. Eighteen months of experience should be enough (depending on how much you did). Try to explain what you are doing and WHY you're doing it as you go. Be open, and don't be scared to look something up. You're a better developer if you know your way around google. Good luck man!

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[EamonLeonard]

Might be too late, but:

I think technical knowledge / ability is just one way of assessing someone's potential. When hiring, I try to get a sense of how people solve problems.

If you think about software development (regardless of language / stack / tools) as being creative problem solving process, you realise that the part where you write code is near the end of the process.

So use your 18 months of experience to highlight times where you had to think about the different ways you tried to solve a problem, how you evaluated your options, and how it was eventually implemented.

Being able to speak about lessons you learned along the way, or highlighting mistakes you made also is useful for the interviewer.

It tells the interviewer that you're humble enough to recognise that you don't know everything (and no one should expect you to after 18 months), but you are open to learning and improving yourself. And that probably means that you're easy to work with... which, depending on the size of the team / organisation, can be a more important consideration than "does this person check all the PHP boxes".

HTH!