You can expect these questions to touch on your work style, recent achievements, and your technical competency. A few topics that you can expect to be asked about are: Tell me about a time that you had to deal with a tricky bug. How did you fix it? What was the outcome? Do you prefer to work by collaborating (pairing) with others or on your own? What do you like about the programming language you use? Which new features of the language do you use most and why? Describe your team’s typical workflow for a project. What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it? Remember, stay positive as much as you can. Although the interviewer is genuinely interested in your responses, they are also looking for any signs of negativity or difficulty you might bring into their current team dynamic. Try to avoid talking down about a particular piece of technology you have used in the past. Instead, spin your response in a positive way. For example, instead of saying “I don’t like using the spread operator in JavaScript, it’s too confusing”, you can say, “I know the spread operator is a newer feature of JavaScript, I look forward to learning more about it and how to use it efficiently in my code.” Now that you have a good idea of what some common questions are and some elements to include in your responses, let's dive into each step in the interview process. The first step is the phone screen.