Beyond the whiteboard interview
summary
Shows a runnable interview format: live pairing, a take-home code review PR, and a pairing day; claims shorter iterations and one week sprints or continuous deployment speed up MVP feedback. Builds a gym booking MVP that stores only booked appointments, derives availability at runtime, adds schedules with start/end dates, a separate holidays table as overrides, per-location schedules, scoped uniqueness validations, and emphasizes tests and admin UI ergonomics.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:39Interview process
- 1:35Consulting questions
- 5:44MVP
- 7:44Release schedule
- 8:42Continuous deployment
- 9:14Tighter iterations
- 9:42Beta version
- 11:57Modeling
- 15:17Schedules
- 16:40Holidays
- 18:17Scheduling vs Holidays
- 20:21Modifying the table diagram
- 21:39Next steps
- 22:55Factory Bot
- 24:14Team Collaboration
- 25:44Interview Rubric
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