Senior Developer Interview Questions

• From 5 being the highest, 1 being the lowest, how would you rate yourself on your PHP skills?

• From 5 being the highest, 1 being the lowest, how would you rate yourself on your MySQL skills?

• From 5 being the highest, 1 being the lowest, how would you rate yourself on your JavaScript skills?

• From 5 being the highest, 1 being the lowest, how would you rate yourself on your CSS skills?

• Are you more of a Front-end, Back-end or could do both?

• How much WordPress experience do you have?

• Have you done any custom coding in WordPress?

  • Shortcodes

• Do you have in any case experience with WooCommerce, Learndash or Gamipress?

• Inside and outside WordPress, have you done any mysql database query optimization in the past? Could you give examples?

• How about speed optimization? Could you give examples of what you did?

• How about any server performance enhancements? Could you elaborate? Maybe tools or techniques you've used?

• How about experience with AWS services?

  • S3

  • RDS

  • Cloudfront

  • EC2

• Did you have experience setting up an infrastructure from scratch? If so, what platforms and do you have an example?
  
  
  

• Experience with other tools:

  • Wordfence

  • CloudFlare
    
    

• Sprints?

Items of concern we want to fix/improve:

• A growing database size

• A growing server file size

• Consistency and Regularly refreshing dev and staging environments with an update of LIVE

  • Using Tools

  • SSH/WP Cli

  • Manually

  • Large Files

• WP engine advance network

• Streamlining deployment (git version control)

• Server monitoring using New Relic