Interview Me

A community of individuals come together to inclusively collaborate in an effort to be better developers

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Inspiration

As developers seeking employment, when we came together to discuss interview experiences it seemed as though there were common questions that employers regularly ask which individually we could answer. However, when we collaborated and pieced parts of some answers from one person to another, the response we developed was substantially stronger.

What it does

Interview Me is a platform where a developer can come to study common interview questions. We have pre-populated questions from our database or the developer can add questions of their own. Additionally, the developer can create flashcards, take multiple choice and matching quizzes, and the community can upvote and downvote the best responses.

How we built it

Utilizing the .NET Framework, we built a web scraper in C# to efficiently get and upload common interview questions from websites into the AWS hosted database. ASP.NET Web API RESTful design was used to connect the front end to the database. The front end was developed using React and styled with SASS/CSS and Bootstrap.

Challenges we ran into

We briefly tackled issues with CORS. Throughout the weekend, we struggled with the internet connection and attempted to use various speech to text API services to no avail even with the help of mentors and Google representatives.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are incredibly proud to have successfully survived and completed a hackathon which for the majority of the team is their first. Ability to push out an attractive MVP in a short frame of time and built a tool that we will actually utilize and could potentially scale.

What we learned

From this experience, we learned a lot about our personal pressures and limits we place on ourselves when pushed out of our comfort zones.

What's next for Interview Me

The future of Interview Me includes the implementation of a few distinguishing features. One of these features includes a quiz mode where the developer can take short answer quizzes and using the power of a speech recognition API so they can dictate their responses and the text/audio will be stored using AWS S3. Additionally, employers will be able to listen to these responses and for a small fee can choose to contact the developer with an offer. Eventually, the product will also be able to be scaled to other industries.

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