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Dinner with an industry luminary

Dinner with an industry luminary

From the course: Tech Career Skills: Interviewing Developers

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Dinner with an industry luminary

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- Developers build applications on platforms. How then can we find out how deeply a candidate understands that platform? Here's a useful question for that. Suppose you're having dinner with Satya Nadella and he asks you what you don't like about Azure and what you would like Microsoft to fix. What would be your top two or three items? I used the head of Microsoft in the question and assume Azure is the platform, but the question can be adapted to any major platform. Typical APIs for these platforms are huge, .net has around 50,000 different classes. Even newer platforms, such as Azure and Amazon web services, are too big for any developer to know everything about them. Because of that I usually stick to general object oriented questions like the ones we discussed earlier. If the position requires certain expertise, such as security, I might ask about related platform details, but I don't ask about random parts of such…

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