Do you have experience using open-sourced web development environments, such as Django or Ruby on Rails?
Senior staff engineers need to have a wide range of talents, experiences, and skills. These include developing applications, managing a few resources, and creating websites for internal and external use. This question is meant to investigate your skills using hosted web development environments. By asking this question, the interviewer is indicating that the organization currently uses an open-source web framework or is considering one. Your research should give you information about which one of these is used and enable you to construct your answer to this question appropriately.
"I have worked with both the Django and Ruby on Rails to create websites. My preference is Django, which I understand your organization is considering. I like this because it is open-sourced and provides a framework that allows me to quickly develop websites and put them into production for specific uses. Since the basic framework is already built, I can focus on the website's function, the applications, contents, and other custom features. For example, I recently used Django to create a transactional website our company used for a popup boutique to test market a new line of cosmetics."
