New Designer Test
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- Gordy22
My company are looking for a Junior designer to join our team and I've been asked to come up with a 'test' for second interviewers to do and bring to the interview.
At te moment I'm gonna get them to change a .doc page into an (x)html page - asking for good CSS / Accessibility / semantics / standards etc.
Any one done somthing like this - taken something like this? Tips on what to include to guage there level of knowledge?
Cheers.
- tomkat0
you actually are letting them code on the job interview?
ha
- ********0
but really can they make a good sammich?
I'd ask them that right off the bat then how they leave messages on answering machines and finally if they know who bender is
- ********0
You want a junior "designer" to code you a css page?
- ********0
lol skt!
- Gordy220
You want a junior "designer" to code you a css page?
skt
(Mar 22 06, 07:54)Them's the rules. Part of the role is to have fair CSS / HTML knowledge so we wanna check to know what they claim to know.
We had one guy - spoke a a good game; a self confessed CSS Guru yet when we gave him a page to design he came up with one class - .steve, one the whole page.
- tomkat0
I could do that whilst making a sandwich.. can I have the job?
- rasko40
.steve is one of my favourite styles, I love the silver to blue rollovers and the go faster underlines
- ********0
Fair enough... sounds like you're after a junior developer to me though.
- honest0
make them do the test in a room where the walls are slowly closing in like in Indiana Jones
- Gucci0
aren't most jobs asking for an unreasonable skillset these days though skt?
seems they're just doing what everyone else is doing.
looking at postings lately, you have to know code, sammiches, ironing, coffee grinding, databasing, CSS, C++++, admin practises, oh and design too
- ********0
Ask him to eat the sandwich to see if he eats with his mouth open.
- digitalgravy0
what, rather than coding at the same time? that's the real test.
- IRNlun60
give him a piece of paper and a pencil. good designers should be able to draw first. Coding in CSS/XHMTL should be a additional skill set... you said junior designer?
- ********0
I don't know what any of this means
- Gordy220
Wll - the way my company works is that the 'designers' look after the (x)html / CSS / usability / accessability / look / feel blah blah and the developers do all the back end php / sql / js / xml / AJAX etc. It's a big ask BUT we're not like a design house or anything.
- Dancer0
But surely you are employing a designer so he/she can design.
Just look at the code of their previous sites and see if they are capable, juniors are there to learn, add efreshment and make the tea, no?
- UndoUndo0
ask them to describe the box model differences between IE and Mozilla browsers, if they can answer that they have grasped one of the main obstacles with xhtml & css
see if they use h1,h2,h3 and p tags properly. make sure they code all tags with lowercase.
that should be fairly okay for a junior position
- kelpie0
they'll need a thick skin. poke them a bit with a stick to ensure this...
- paraselene0
um.
what are the box model differences between ie and mozilla browsers?
- UndoUndo0
IE and Mozilla use padding and margin attributes differently.