monigarr / techinterviewtemplates

Tech interview templates to help with discover technical talent.

Tech Interview Templates

• Tech interview templates to help discover technical talent.
• First Draft - please join our team to contribute your expertise from any background!
• Inspired by Programmers confessing their sins , You can't fix diversity in tech without fixing the interview and the twitter convo about ridiculous ego driven tech interview experiences that waste time & resources. Thank You to DHH and MissXu for inspiring the creation of this open source repo. I hope it can serve to be the respectful change we all strive for.

Diversity in the Tech Industry? Be the Change!

Share your expertise with this new Open source project. If you are not comfortable with GitHub and code - Look at the Wiki Tab.

It's time to stop whining about our different colors, genders, ages, castes, isms and build the solutions now. Be the Change.

Purpose

• Ensure technical interview is efficient at discovering people that can perform the job requirements.
• Focus on reaching the professional requirements & goals of hiring a human that is capable & willing to do the work.
• Lessen hiring decisions with ego driven biases based on isms (race, age, gender, class, caste, religion, etc).
• Create and maintain dignity & respect in the technical interview. Machines memorize & spit out code on command. Humans are not machines.

How to Contribute

Please contribute a pull request.

If you have questions or comments, please create an issue.

Join our team and contribute your expertise (templates, articles, etc) from any background ( hr, hiring, recruiting, interviewing, being interviewed).

Resources if you are new to contributing to open-source:

Contributing to open source in general

• Up For Grabs - a list of projects with beginner-friendly issues
• Issuehub.io - a tool for searching GitHub issues by label and language
• First Timers Only - a list of bugs that are labelled "first-timers-only"
• YourFirstPR - starter issues on GitHub that can be easily tackled by new contributors.
• Awesome-for-beginners - a GitHub repo that amasses projects with good bugs for new contributors, and applies labels to describe them.
• Openhatch - a non-profit organization that helps lower barriers of entry into open source. You can find bugs and projects here, as well.

Direct GitHub searches

Search links that point directly to suitable issues to contribute to on GitHub

• is:issue is:open label:easy
• is:issue is:open label:beginner
• is:issue is:open label:up-for-grabs

Useful articles for new open source contributors

• "How to find your first open source bug to fix" by @Shubheksha
• "First Timers Only" by @kentcdodds
• "Bring Kindness Back to Open Source" by @shanselman

Using version control

• Oh shit, git! - how to get out of common git mistakes described in plain English
• Atlassian Git Tutorials - various tutorials on using git
• GitHub Git Cheat Sheet (PDF)
• freeCodeCamp's Wiki on Git Resources
• GitHub Flow - GitHub talk on how to make a pull request