⚠️ This guide has moved to the consolidated 18F guides repository.

18F Engineering hiring guides

Our guide to how 18F Engineering selects candidates, from resume screen to offer.

Note to 18F staff:

As much as possible, this should be publicly-accessible: interviews shouldn't be about surprises or gotchas. For the few things that can't be public, put them in a private Google Doc and link it here.

Build / Deployment

This project uses Isildur's Bane, a Jekyll meta-template for 18F/TTS guides. As a consequence, content is added and edited in _guides/_pages. Please check the Isildur's Bane README for more details!

This project uses CircleCI, here is the dashboard

For debugging, the local-cli is useful: circleci local execute

Running locally with Docker

1. Install Docker : Try typing docker version in your terminal to see if it's already installed. If it's not, Docker Desktop is an easy way to install.

2. Running the site: docker-compose up --build then open http://127.0.0.1:4000

3. Running tests: docker-compose run web bundle exec rake test

Debugging

• SSH into the Docker container with docker-compose run web /bin/bash