{"id":940,"date":"2015-03-16T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T04:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015-experienced.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=940"},"modified":"2015-03-23T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:01:09","slug":"cheat-sheet-10-questions-i-ask-every-developer","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/session\/cheat-sheet-10-questions-i-ask-every-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Interview Questions I Ask Developers (2015 Edition!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake has vetted hundreds of applicants over the last decade, and has personally considered and hired more than 40 WordPress engineers over the last few years. While the hiring process at 10up has evolved and has been mostly delegated, the fundamental precepts &#8211; and many key questions &#8211; live on, as we consider hundreds of applicants each year.<\/p>\n<p>10up&#8217;s questions range from the philosophical \u2013 &#8220;Describe something that really frustrates you about WordPress right now, and propose a solution&#8221;- to technical \u2013 &#8220;Tell me about the two basic types of hooks in WordPress, and the difference between them&#8221; &#8211; to granular \u2013 &#8220;What\u2019s the best way to prevent posts in a specific category from showing up in the blog index?&#8221; Sometimes there\u2019s more than one right answer, sometimes there\u2019s really only one answer. And there are also some <i>really<\/i> bad answers.<\/p>\n<p>Can <i>you<\/i> pass 10up\u2019s WordPress developer interview?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake has vetted hundreds of applicants over the last decade, and has personally considered and hired more than 40 WordPress engineers over the last few years. While the hiring process at 10up has evolved and has been mostly delegated, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/session\/cheat-sheet-10-questions-i-ask-every-developer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">10 Interview Questions I Ask Developers (2015 Edition!)<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1973938,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1427562900,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[807],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[477750],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-940","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-cascade-room"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s5EI-fa","session_date_time":{"date":"March 28, 2015","time":"10:15 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"807","slug":"jake-goldman","name":"Jake Goldman","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/speaker\/jake-goldman\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/940\/revisions\/1103"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/807"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jakemgold"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2015-experienced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}