How to Answer: Can you review this code and identify any errors you see?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Web Developer job interview.
3. Can you review this code and identify any errors you see?
How to Answer
During the interview for a web developer's position, you may be asked to perform practical tasks such as this one. This provides the interviewer with a live demonstration of your skills. The tasks may be presented to you as written code which you need to debug or discuss, or the interviewer may provide you with a description of a function of the page then ask you to write the code for it. Practicing your coding skills for common tasks before the interview will help you be prepared for this.
Written by William Swansen on August 5th, 2021
Answer Example
"After reviewing this code, I can see several different errors and it. Some of these are syntax, and others relate to the commands and functions called by the code. To thoroughly analyze the code, I would typically use a common debugging tool such as GDB. However, without the tool, the specific problems I found are... (then describe each issue you found and how you would fix it)."
Written by William Swansen on August 5th, 2021