Success in web development agencies relies on having capable developers. Finding the right WordPress developer for your agency can be challenging. At White Label Agency, we’ve excelled in this area. With a team of over 100 dedicated developers, we’ve built a strong foundation for our services, thanks to their expertise.
How do you choose the right developer and identify the skills you need? I interviewed our HR manager, Anano, to get insights. She has extensive experience in the hiring process and offers valuable advice on web developer interview questions.
Soft and Hard Skills: Essential for Any Job
“No matter if you’re hiring a web developer, a web designer, or an accountant, it’s fundamental to ask candidates diverse questions and check their full spectrum of skills and abilities. I refer to soft and hard skills check. These two ramifications are well-known in HR communities. Hard skills, or technical skills, are learned through education or hands-on experience. These are concrete, measurable abilities that are often specific to a job. A candidate can demonstrate proficiency in hard skills through relevant certifications, portfolios, skill assessment tests, and completed work. For example, for a web developer, the knowledge of PHP or any other programming language is considered to be a hard skill.”-Says our HR manager Anano.
Assessing a WordPress web developer’s hard skills is critical during the hiring process. These technical skills include their expertise in WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript; and deep understanding of themes, plugins, and database management specific to the WordPress platform.
WordPress developers’ hard skills are essential for building and maintaining high-quality, secure, and user-friendly websites. Developers need to have a strong foundation in hard skills to stay competitive, adopt new technologies, and deliver a smooth user experience. To put it simply, WordPress developers‘ hard skills are the key to the success and innovation of WordPress projects.
Anano continues, “However, soft skills are non-technical skills that are related to how you work. They include the ability to follow certain guidelines, the way a person interacts with colleagues, solves problems, and manages the work overall.
Both hard and soft skills are very important. You might find it quite strange but in some cases, the candidates with top-notch soft skills outweigh the candidates with very high-end hard skills.”
Soft skills are equally important for a WordPress web developer’s role. As Anano points out, they encompass the non-technical abilities that relate to how they work. This includes their ability to follow guidelines, collaborate effectively with coworkers, solve problems, and manage their work efficiently.
The role of a WordPress developer often involves working with clients, designers, and other team members. This makes strong communication skills essential. Developers with excellent soft skills can interpret client needs accurately, manage project timelines effectively, and contribute positively to the team’s dynamics.
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Interview Questions for Selecting Top-Quality Web Developers
The depth of web developer interview questions varies according to the roles. Whether you’re looking for a junior, middle, senior, etc. But there are basic questions that are essential to ask regardless of the roles. Below I am going to share some of the web developer interview questions, that Anano provided.
Technical questions to check up on the hard skills of the candidates include the proficiency and hands-on experience working with:
- HTML
- CSS preprocessors (Scss/Sass/Less)
- WordPress plugins and functions
- WP widgets/shortcodes
- WordPress premium theme usage
- Google map API (customize map view, markers)
- Template hierarchy/overriding
- PHP syntax understanding and usage
- JS, jQuery, WP-Query
- Working with page builders
- Gutenberg, Ajax
- Post Type and Taxonomy structures (CPT UI)
- Code debugging
- Page speed optimization
- Site migration
- Git usage
- Rest API
- JSON
- WooCommerce
- ADA
- DDL (SQL)
“It’s up to the interviewer how in-depth he/she chooses to go on the interview with each criterion. Tailoring your web developer interview questions according to the role’s seniority can help identify the right fit more effectively. For example, if you’re looking for strong juniors or middles, you should ask the candidate whether she/he has experience in writing PHP functions or using WooCommerce basic setup. If you are aiming to hire seniors, the advanced usage of WooCommerce, Ajax, Gutenberg (native), ADA, etc is a must.” – says Anano.
Non-technical questions to check up on the soft skills of the candidates:
- Why did you decide to apply for this job?
- What are your career aspirations in the short and long terms?
- How do react to critical feedback?
- Have you ever received unclear instructions from a manager or team leader? How did you proceed?
- Remember one of the most challenging situations or projects you have faced before. Briefly discuss the difficulties and the solutions you came up with.
- Which do you prefer: written communication or verbal communication? Why?
- Please name some of your weakest and strongest characteristics.
- What could irritate you the most in your workplace?
- Besides the technical skills, what could be your biggest contribution to the team?
- What are your hobbies and interests?
And the list goes on. This kind of questions help the recruiters to measure how well the candidate fits the team, organization, and culture.
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Finding the Perfect Fit
Hiring the best WordPress web developer for your agency is crucial for success. If you want to hire a top-notch web developer for your agency, don’t hesitate to contact us at White Label Agency. We offer outsourcing for digital agencies in web development and design. WLA provides a wide range of offerings including one-time development or design projects, the option to hire dedicated developers and designers, website maintenance, and more. Our mission is to establish long-lasting relationships with our clients to help them grow. With a decade of experience, we’ve successfully collaborated with over 600 agencies and delivered more than 10,000 websites. We’d be thrilled to add your agency to our growing list of successful partnerships.
