☛ What Source Control systems have you worked with?

☛ What is Continuous Integration? Have you used it and why is it important?

☛ Describe a software development life cycle that you've managed.

☛ How do you react to people criticizing your code/documents?

☛ Whose blogs or podcasts do you follow? Do you blog or podcast?

☛ Tell me about some of your hobby projects that you've written in your off time.

☛ What is the last programming book you read?

☛ Describe, in as much detail as you think is relevant, as deeply as you can, what happens when I type "cnn.com" into a browser and press "Go".

☛ Describe the structure and contents of a design document, or a set of design documents, for a multi-tiered web application.

☛ What's so great about <cool web technology of the day>?

☛ How can you stop your DBA from making off with a list of your users’ passwords?

☛ What do you do when you get stuck with a problem you can't solve?

☛ If your database was under a lot of strain, what are the first few things you might consider to speed it up?

☛ What is SQL injection?

☛ What's the difference between unit test and integration test?

☛ Tell me about 3 times you failed.

☛ What is Refactoring ? Have you used it and it is important? Name three common refactorings.

☛ You have two computers, and you want to get data from one to the other. How could you do it?

☛ Left to your own devices, what would you create?

☛ Given Time, Cost, Client satisfaction and Best Practices, how will you prioritize them for a project you are working on? Explain why.

☛ What's the difference between a web server, web farm and web garden? How would your web application need to change for each?

☛ What value do daily builds, automated testing, and peer reviews add to a project? What disadvantages are there?

☛ What elements of OO design are most prone to abuse? How would you mitigate that?

☛ When do you know your code is ready for production?

☛ What's YAGNI? Is this list of questions an example?

☛ Describe to me some bad code you've read or inherited lately.