Interview questions for pyton and php programmers

I have been using this format for my interviews previously and it greatly helped me.
Since I am trying to create a new blog, I was thinking of publishing something that will have some use for programmers. So I am sharing my interview checklists. Hope that will help you all.

• Tell me about yourself
• Team player
• Self motivated
• Enjoy learning and sharing
• Pragmatic
• Social
• What do you enjoy most in your current job
• Coding kata   
• Book club  
• Technical Presentation
• What’s the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your work
• Why do you want to leave your current job
• What is your present boss like
• Good forecasting
• Innovative  
• Why do you think you are best match for this job
• What do you know about our company
• What can you bring to the company
• Agile
• TDD
• How long  do you expect in stay in the company
• Progress
• Contribution
• What are your greatest strengths
• What is your biggest weakness
• Where do you see yourself in five years time
• Keep progressing to senior role
• Give me an example of a difficult team situation you had to deal with
• Give me an e xample of a product or concept you found hard to understand
• Give me an example of something you are very proud of
• Give me an example of a change or improvement you made to development or testing processes in your organisation
• Give me an example of a time you performed well in a team
• Give me an example of a time you showed initiative
• Give me an example of a time you demonstrated creativity
• Give me an example of a time when you demonstrated leadership
• What is the most challenging piece of work you have undertaken and why? What were the challenges and how did you overcome them?
• Aside from your day to day project work have you made a broader contribution to the technical advancement of your team as a whole?
• What new technology, either inside or outside of work, do you find most exciting and why?
• Why are you interested in the role?
• What aspects of the role interest you the most?
• What can you offer us?
• I have great energy going through complicated problems
• I am a great team player
• I love playing with new technology and sharing
• I assure best practice in working

Python Topics:

1. Python ?
2. Property, http://adam.gomaa.us/blog/2008/aug/11/the-python-property-builtin/
3. Data structures http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html (list,tuples, set, dict)
4. File processing http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file-objects
5. Exception handling http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html
6. Itertools http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
7. Iterators http://www.learningpython.com/2009/02/23/iterators-iterables-and-generators-oh-my/
8. Generators http://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators
9. Decorators, http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240845
10. @classmethod vs @staticmethod http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136097/what-is-the-difference-between-staticmethod-and-classmethod-in-python
11. List comprehension vs generator expression
12. Builtin functions (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html )
13. Special method
14. Function as first class object http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object#In_Python, http://blog.benchside.com/2010/02/treating-python-functions-as-first-class-objects/
15. Lambda http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/lambda_functions.hawk
16. Testing
17. Debugger (pdb)
18. Multiple inheritence
19. Multi-threading vs Multi-processing
20. Re
21. Setup script, http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html#distutils-simple-example
22. Glossary http://docs.python.org/glossary

Django Topics:

1. Django design philosophy, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/misc/design-philosophies/?from=olddocs
2. New features
3. Django ORM (query especially)
4. admin.py, manage.py
5. Django settings
6. URL dispatcher, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/urls/
7. Reverse
8. Reverse url matching
9. Model manager
10. Caching, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/cache/
11. Abstract  base class, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#abstract-base-classes
12. ORM limitation, stored procedure
13. User profile
14. Signal, http://www.chrisdpratt.com/2008/02/16/signals-in-django-stuff-thats-not-documented-well
15. How djagno process a request
16. Request and response
17. Fixtures
18. Generic view, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/class-based-views/
19. Middleware, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/middleware/
20. MVT
21. URL patterns/ URL Naming/ URL template tag
22. Template, model and table inheritance
23. Internationalization
24. Forms
25. Test framework, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/testing/

Programming Architecture:

1. Dependency injection
2. Separation of Concern 
3. Single Responsibility Principle  
4. Design patterns  http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2007/10/08/design-patterns-python-style/
1. singletone
2. factory
3. decorator
4. observer
5. template
6. State
7. Iterator

Others from CV:

1. scrum-ban
2. rabbitmq
3. celery
4. fabric
5. OOC in java script
6. load balancer

More Questions:

1. http://dev.fyicenter.com/Interview-Questions/Python/index.html
2. http://www.techinterviews.com/python-interview-questions-and-answers

CSS questions:

1. http://dev.fyicenter.com/Interview-Questions/CSS/index.html

Javascripts questions:

Mysql questions:

1. http://dba.fyicenter.com/Interview-Questions/MySQL/
2. http://www.techinterviews.com/29-mysql-interview-questions
3. http://vijaybalajithecitizen.blogspot.com/2010/02/mysql-interview-questions-with-answers.html
4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62069/mysql-interview-questions

PHP questions:

1. http://dev.fyicenter.com/Interview-Questions/PHP/index.html
2. http://www.techinterviews.com/php-interview-questions-part-1
3. http://www.pcds.co.in/php-interview-questions-and-answer.php

Programming Exercise:

1. prime number
2. factorial
3. fibonacci