[onemiketwelve]

I've always done tons of side projects, it's a result of trying to build small lifestyle companies. So I'm biased towards any interviewer that hones in on any of the projects and takes interest in hearing about the story. I as well hone in on any particular side projects, especially any that are "real" ie generate money, or is on the appstore or has users.

Although it feels kind of rigid, I appreciate structured questions. I've heard that you should keep the format objective and ask things in the exact same way in order to avoid subjectivity. So when I interview others, I usually have around 8 very structured questions that I ask and then it goes onto the actual coding part. It makes it easier and more fair to compare later. Of course end of the day, apparently nobody can pick performers from an interview as proved by google so maybe it's all just to make ourselves feel better

Any job that doesn't ghost you and even better, give you a specific break down of what you could improve on. I remember doing a takehome where the prompt said there would be a leaderboard and was written with a peppy fun attitude to sell the competition. I got really excited to see how I did compared to others and they just never replied back.