- Why do you want to work here?
- What can you do for this company?
- What are your key strengths or skills?
- What is your greatest weakness?
- What did you learn yesterday/this week?
- What excites or interests you about coding?
- If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?
- What is a recent technical challenge you experienced and how did you solve it?
- What do you want to learn in the future?
- Do you spend some of your spare time learning, contributing to open source projects?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- Tell me about a time when you had to overcome a major obstacle that stood in the way of you accomplishing a goal or commitment.
- How do you go about continuing to develop your skills and knowledge?
- What role does your manager or supervisor play in your personal motivation at work?
- Describe a conflict you were involved in at work. How did you resolve the conflict? What happened next with that coworker or team?
- Describe the work environment or culture in which you are most productive and happy.
- What is your preferred work style? Do you prefer working alone or as part of a team? What percentage of your time would you allocate to each, given the choice?
- Have you ever broken the rules to get the job done?
- How do you see your job (in general) evolve in the next decade?
- If you could be any character in fiction, whom would you be?
- If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?
- If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be and why?
- If you could compare yourself with any animal, which would it be and why?
- Who do you admire most and why?
- If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs -- such as food and water -- were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?
- Free time activities, hobby (at the end)
- What were you hoping I would ask you today?
- What were you hoping I wouldn't ask you today?
- How do I rate as an interviewer?