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Interview with a mentor

Technical Screening or The process of recruiting students by a mentor to their group.

Interview goals:

  • Forming a list of students for RSSchool stage#2.
  • Forming “Mentor-students” subgroups.

Each mentor interviews more people than he planned to mentor (eg: +2 students). After all the interviews have been completed, the mentor may drop part of the group in order to keep the number of students that he can mentor. Mentors can postpone the exclusion for several weeks in order to make a more informed decision.

  • Checking the level of students' preparation.
  • Students get the experience of going through the interview.

Attention! RS School doesn’t check in advance:

  • Mentors’ adequacy.
  • Students’ adequacy.

Interview process

Interviews take place during the last week of the stage#1 and the first week of stage#2. You can track up-to-date information on the interview in app.rs.school in the Interviews section. It will contain a link to the interview’s description, the deadline, and a registration button.

Phases

  1. Registration. In order to take part in the selection for an interview, the student should press the Register button. If the student already has an Interview, there is no need to press the button, you should contact the interviewer.
  2. Pairs formation. After distribution, students will see “Interviewer” - there will be a link to his account in app.rs.school with the contacts for communication. The student needs to contact the interviewer within the first week and agree on the date of the interview. If a student does not have an Interviewer, he is not invited to an interview and is automatically moved to the wait-list.
  3. Interviewing. The interview will be conducted online. The average length of an interview is ~60 minutes.
  4. Results of the interview. After the student has passed the interview, the Result column will contain information about the mentor's decision: Yes - the mentor takes the student, otherwise the student is moved to the wait-list.

Wait-list - a list of students who were either not invited for an interview or were rejected by the mentor after the interview. Mentors can select students from this list.

Redistribution. At the administration’s discretion, a redistribution would take place. Students from the wait-list will participate in it.

Interview Topics

  • Basics of OOP.
  • Basic data structures and their organization (array, list, stack, queue, tree, hash table, etc.).
  • Ability to implement a fairly simple algorithm in JavaScript. Example tasks
  • Basic sorting and searching algorithms.
  • Binary number system.
  • Several questions on tasks solved in stage#1
  • Basics of HTML/CSS:
    • Display attribute values
    • Selector weights
    • Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements
    • Box model
    • em vs rem, relative and absolute values
    • Positioning: document flow, position property, overflow, and z-index
    • Flexbox
    • Grid
    • ...
  • Basics of JS:
    • Data types
    • Variables
    • Number methods
    • String methods & String templates
    • Ternary, Nullish Coalescing, Optional Chaining, and Logical Operators – Syntax and Use Cases
    • Switch case - examples where it can be useful
    • Loops - for, while, do while
    • Be able to discover cases of implicit data types conversion into boolean, string, number
    • Type conversions
    • Strict comparison

What should a student do in case of an unsuccessful interview

The student can continue their studies sign up for the next course. Lectures, assignments and chats are in the public domain.

What to do if a student is dissatisfied with an interview with a mentor

In this case, the student needs to describe the situation and their claim here.

FAQ

Typical student problems

  1. I can’t contact the mentor because there are no contacts in his profile.
  2. There are contacts, but the mentor does not answer for more than 3 days.
  3. The mentor can no longer mentor. You need to leave a comment here.

Q: Do I need to register for an interview if I already have a mentor?

Even if you already have a mentor, you need to register. Then, in case of any problems with the mentor, you can get on the waiting list and expect to receive a new mentor in the future.

Q: How can a student transfer to another mentor?

The course does not allow students to choose a mentor.