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Oct 2011

The High-Security Interview, The PHP Candidate, and Overqualified

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The PHP Candidate (from Tony)
Before bringing people in for an interview, we give them a simple questionnaire about PHP. While this might turn off some folks like Big Picture Thinker, we've found that it tends to weed out those certain developers.

The questions are no-brainers for experienced PHP developers, and require half a brain to Google. Following is a response I got to the question, What causes the PHP error 'Headers already sent' and how can you fix it?