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      Apprentice Interview

      23 Jun 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at thoughtbot (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2019

      Interview

      3-round interview process that lasted 2 weeks. 1st round is a non-technical interview to get an overview of your background in Rails. 2nd round is a consulting interview where they ask you a combination of non-technical and technical questions. These questions revolve around a single hypothetical application that you and an imaginary team will be building. No white-boarding or trick questions here. 3rd round is the on-site interview that consists of 2 parts. In the morning, you are assigned to pair-program with another employee on a feature that's part of their internal tooling, in the language you applied for. In the afternoon, you are tasked to do some pair-programming exercises in a language you are not familiar with.

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      Have you pushed to a production environment before?
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      Question 2

      How different was your schooling compared to your work experience?
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      Question 3

      A client wants to build X. They want a native app for their prototype within 3 months. What kind of questions would you ask them and what advice would you give?
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      Question 4

      Given this relationship between two different models, write an SQL statement that returns X.
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      Question 5

      When would you use an RDBMS vs a NoSQL database backend?
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      Question 6

      You begin to notice that your Rails app is loading slow. It takes 8 seconds for the page to render. How would you troubleshoot your Rails application?
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      Question 7

      In what use cases should we not use Rails? What other languages or frameworks should we use instead?
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