PHP Programmer Job Interviews [somewhat strange request]

Question

IT education

Introduction
No matter how silly it sounds, I want to know a lot. The consequence of this desire was my passion for web programming at the university. I freelanced a bit, then got a job. I think that I got a good job :) I learned everything myself, like many programmers. But I do not study everything in a row, what is necessary to solve the task, well, or with a reserve for the future.

Essence of the question
If there are habravchans (teamleads, for example) from St. Petersburg who select web programmers (php, mysql, js) for the position of junior or middle, please respond. If possible, I would like to attend the interview. Listen to the questions, test yourself and find out what you need to know now, so to speak. I promise, then I won’t run to you to get settled. This is for myself, I won’t send any programmer friends later either, especially since he’s the only one and that, my boss :)

Thank you for your time.

_{PS And I also want to go on a tour of the Yandex office, but this is so, by the way.}

Answer 1

Little life hack: Go to interviews yourself, why be present. After all, no one obliges you to get a job immediately after the interview, right?
Note: it is hardly possible to understand from the questions of the interviewer what NOW YOU NEED TO KNOW. This can be understood by tracking trends, asking friends (who does what where), reading it-sites, looking at popular and required vacancies. I think you yourself understand this.
Suggestion: with sufficient knowledge of php, mysql and js, you can easily work for yourself, riveting sites on some Joomla for not too demanding comrades.

Answer 2

I want to tell you what I had a (cool) interview. Lasted 9 minutes, the man asked 10 questions focused on general knowledge: OOP, MVC, JS (AJAX), SQL. And what projects did I work on? And they took me the next day. It doesn’t really matter if a person doesn’t know how to use a specific framework, he will learn it anyway, and most importantly, that the brains work. Good luck!

Answer 3

My interview began with the words “I don’t know English, in principle, I don’t know how we would talk now” - “It doesn’t matter, the main thing is that you understand what you are doing”))
And then they told me what the company does, asked about frameworks that I own, about OOP, about MVC and about version control.
Here in the USA, absolutely no one knows about nginx, and even more so about the fact that it can work in conjunction with Apache.
In another of my interviews, I was told that in the US it is very rare to find people working with Symphony

Answer 4

When I went to an interview for the position of a php programmer, I was not asked questions. They just said write a mini-social network in php with ajax and come and show me. Up to 2 weeks.

Answer 5

According to the description of interests, and given the desire to visit Yandex, I advise you to pay attention to the Yandex School of Data Analysis .
I am now a student of the Computer Science department in Moscow. In the first semester, they talked about algorithms and data structures (if you are an Olympiad student, then you know 90% of the theory, but passing the assignments required code review by Yandex employees), a course in the theory of probability by Raygorodsky (he has his own rather interesting presentation) and a subject of choice. I chose Philip Andronov's Java course, which in the process turned out to be more of an architecture and development methodology course.
I highly recommend.
There will be questions - ask, I will be glad to answer.