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How to screen front end developer skills - HTML and CSS Blog

How to screen front end developer skills – HTML and CSS

By Coding Test, Front end developer, Interview questions, IT recruitment

HTML and CSS are two of the most fundamental front end developer skills. You’d be hard-pressed to come across a web developer who doesn’t have at least a basic understanding of the two stalwarts. However, some believe that HTML and CSS shouldn’t be given the same respect as other languages because neither requires any internal logic. That’s because HTML and CSS are declarative languages that instruct a web browser to render web pages rather than use computational code.

Despite what some may think, it’s becoming increasingly valuable for developers to possess in-depth knowledge and expertise of theses two languages. Verifying a developer’s HTML and CSS skills is as important as ascertaining skills in languages like Java and C++. Surely, anyone vaguely technical should have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. In the end, that’s all you need, right? Not exactly.

HTML and CSS make up the backbone of front end development along with JavaScript. In fact, you’ll also find quite a lot of back-end developers who use these languages on a regular basis. While you will never find a developer who solely uses these languages, HTML and CSS are critical enough to modern software development to ensure that front end developers are able to use them effectively. While they are simple to get started with, advanced applications require in-depth skill and understanding. It’s essential to verify that your developer has this understanding.

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September 8, 2020
security engineer: software engineer interview questions

Security Engineer interview questions

By Recruiting Tips, Technical Interview

Security has never been more important than it is right now. As a society, we have become comfortable with putting much more sensitive and important information in areas that we don’t control. On top of that, we work collectively, with many of the applications we used to host on our own systems now being hosted in the cloud. While these new trends create tons of possibilities, the growing complexity of systems, the sensitivity of data, and widening access to our networks means that the role of the dedicated security engineer has become essential to most companies.

Security Engineers are not simply your standard software engineer or developer that has been pulled in from another function to look at security. The best candidates have unique skill sets and approaches that make them uniquely suited to this purpose. Security Engineers require a dedicated screen separate from the other technologies that you use.  Keep reading to find out exactly what your security engineer needs to know and how to find out if they know it.

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May 21, 2019
.NET: software engineer interview questions

Screen .NET Developer Skills Set List & Experience Requirements

By Coding Test, IT recruitment, Recruiting Tips

You are about to start a recruitment campaign to hire a .NET developer or a .NET Core developer. But once you receive your applications and resumes, you have to decide who is good enough to get to an on-site technical interview. This requires a technical screening process.

What a lot of technical recruiters don’t realize is that screening involves more than glancing through a resume. Why is that? On the one hand, good .NET developers are scarce so you don’t want to overlook a candidate with potential and good programming skills. On the other, you don’t want to invite weak candidates for an interview. This wastes the precious time of your IT team and coworkers.

So the question arises, how can you screen the .NET programming skills of your .NET developer candidates so that you interview the good candidates and filter out the bad ones? We have put together this guide to show what matters in .NET technology and how to screen candidates quickly and effectively. Are you ready? Let’s start with the basics. Read More

January 22, 2018
Best chrome extensions for IT sourcing and technical recruitment

Chrome Extensions For Recruiters

By IT recruitment, Recruiting Tips

We all know that sourcing and recruiting can be very time-consuming and at the same time you are expected to act as fast as possible. To make sourcing and recruiting faster and smoother you have to act smart and use tools to support you. Using dedicated browser extensions may be a good solution. Chrome extensions can help you in several ways from finding social media profiles, websites to contact information such as an email address and phone numbers. They create endless opportunities for you not only to connect with candidates but also to engage with them.

Want to try to use boolean search? There are Chrome addons which do the work for you. Want to make your Gmail help you with recruiting or screening? There are extensions for it.

We gathered most popular and useful Chrome extensions for sourcing and recruiting which can be very helpful for IT recruiters. Check them out and start using them. Read More

August 30, 2016

What’s happening at DevSkiller? #April2016

By Changelog

This year has already been very busy, we do feel that we are really going global! 

Each month we start working with customers from new countries and our Month-over-Month for the third time in the row exceeded 100% growth.

But enough about financials, in the past 4 months we’ve made a lot of big changes in DevSkiller application to make it more flexible. We’ve been listening to our customer wishes and evolving so that it is more user-friendly and convenient to use. Just check it out: Read More

April 28, 2016

What’s happening at DevSkiller? #December2015

By Changelog
We thought that our customers deserve to know what is happening at DevSkiller, that’s why we started to write our changelog, where we will write about new features in our system. We evolve all the time to meet your demands and be the best programmers testing software on the market.
Since we haven’t been writing before about what’s new on our side, you’ll find a lot of new cool features, that you probably didn’t know about.

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December 16, 2015
10 most common don'ts of hiring programmers

10 most common don’ts of hiring programmers

By Coding Test, Recruiting Tips, Technical Interview

How often do you find yourself in being disappointed when hiring programmers? You spent hours of your time looking through hundreds of CVs, reviewing endless lines of code, and conducting interview after interview. You end up choosing someone but more often than not, they turned out to be far from what you have expected. This probably leaves you wondering what went wrong? Maybe we can help. Read More

August 17, 2015