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      Senior PHP Developer Interview

      Feb 2, 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Arlington, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at The Media Trust (Arlington, VA) in Oct 2017

      Interview

      I was interviewed at a recruiter's office. The interviewer was the Software Development Manager. The interview was bizarre. The interviewer had not taken the time to read my resume prior and did not appear to care as much as he preferred to talk about himself and the company. He described their development methodology as 'PHP purists'. They prefer not to work with existing PHP frameworks, paradigms, or any PHP PSR Standards. I immediately diagnosed them with an extreme case of "Not-Invented-Here Syndrome". I also felt that this particular manager did not fully understand the service his company provided. The Media Trust provides ad auditing and ad compliance to online publishers to prevent malware from being distributed through their websites. I asked how they handled remarketing ads, where the ad seen on a website is completely dynamic and changes from person to person. The interviewer did not have a valid answer and did not know what remarketing was. Overall, my experience with The Media Trust was negative. The interviewer was incredibly arrogant and had I received an offer I would have declined it immediately. My advice to the company is to modernize your development stack. The interviewer let it slip that they were several major versions behind on PHP, which opens them up to substantial security issues. How they would pass their own audit is beyond me.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe the difference between an interface and an abstract class.
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