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My company is looking for a new web developer and we are eager to find someone that would be efficient as soon as hired and capable of making quality code. I will have to take interview and I would like to give them an assignment, so I can see

• their general programming skills
• if they are able to use CSS
• the general quality of what they product
• and probably so much more

The only problem I don't have good ideas of what to give to them. Some of the candidate would probably be working in some other company so it should be something like 8 hours work at maximum (like one week end) but it should be complicate enough to show their skills.

So far I was thinking :

• a contact manager
• a CD/BOOK manager
• a blog ?

guys if you have some ideas opinions, please share!

Also the assignment would be in PHP using the Zend Framework, so it has to take in the calculation candidates might not be so experienced with the framework.

Answer 1

I don't think you should give them such a long "test". In my opinion if you want to do something like this, make it a simple 5-20 minute application. Perhaps a small address book manager that stores name/number and maybe 1-2 other fields. But nothing too complicated. And tell them that it only needs simple styling to look "ok" but nothing fancy is required. If it were me, I really wouldn't want to do "homework" for an interview.