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 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 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