We’re shortly due to hire a new lamp/javascript developer at work and I just came across a very interesting post by Nicholas C. Zakas of Yahoo and O’Reilly fame. Although his requirements are probably a bit excessive (considering the enterprise level he’s at), I think there are some good ideas – definitely worth a read if you ever want to partake in the ‘big time’. Link here. Another interesting post explaining this javascript test offers some great insights into the workings of ECMA / javascript.

If you find the test by Dmitry Baranovsky easy to cope with, have a go at this one by Juriy Zaytsev of Prototype core dev team, some nasties there but it’s laced with knowledge of the inner workings of javascript. Is it fair to expect somebody you are interviewing to solve these, that’s a different subject…