☛ What is something substantive that you've done to improve as a developer in your career?

☛ Would you call yourself a craftsman (craftsperson) and what does that word mean to you?

☛ Implement a <basic data structure> using <some language> on <paper|whiteboard|notepad>.

☛ What is SOLID?

☛ Why is the Single Responsibility Principle important?

☛ What is Inversion of Control? How does that relate to dependency injection?

☛ How does a 3 tier application differ from a 2 tier one?

☛ Why are interfaces important?

☛ What is the Repository pattern? The Factory Pattern? Why are patterns important?

☛ What are some examples of anti-patterns?

☛ Who are the Gang of Four? Why should you care?

☛ How do the MVP, MVC, and MVVM patterns relate? When are they appropriate?

☛ Explain the concept of Separation of Concerns and it's pros and cons.

☛ Name three primary attributes of object-oriented design. Describe what they mean and why they're important.

☛ Describe a pattern that is NOT the Factory Pattern? How is it used and when?

☛ You have just been put in charge of a legacy code project with maintainability problems. What kind of things would you look to improve to get the project on a stable footing?

☛ Show me a portfolio of all the applications you worked on, and tell me how you contributed to design them.

☛ What are some alternate ways to store data other than a relational database? Why would you do that, and what are the trade-offs?

☛ Explain the concept of convention over configuration, and talk about an example of convention over configuration you have seen in the wild.

☛ Explain the differences between stateless and stateful systems, and impacts of state on parallelism.

☛ Discuss the differences between Mocks and Stubs/Fakes and where you might use them (answers aren't that important here, just the discussion that would ensue).

☛ Discuss the concept of YAGNI and explain something you did recently that adhered to this practice.

☛ Explain what is meant by a sandbox, why you would use one, and identify examples of sandboxes in the wild.