Programmers.StackExchange.com: How can I test PHP skills in a interview?
Note: This article was originally published at PHPDeveloper
on 16 August 2012.
In this recent post to the "Programmers" area of the StackExchange site, the user asks the community for help in testing a PHP developer during the interview process to asses their level of knowledge accurately.
My company needs to hire a PHP developer, but nobody has PHP knowledge in my company and we find difficult to test for PHP skills. If it were a C/Java developer I would ask him to write a quick implementation of the Game of Life, but PHP is a completely different language. I saw this test with interest. Anyone else has more suggestions?
There's several other suggestions made touching on a wide range of evaluations including: