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Recently I happened to answer a reporter’s question – “what is your favorite API interview question?” … Right, many of us have passed through multiple interviews on either side and have our own ‘favorites’ and ‘outsiders’. Many, who conducted interviews, have their list of questions or topics they want to have covered during an interview. Well, I have a few such lists. But let’s turn the flow slightly from ‘what we want to ask’ or ‘what answers we want to get’ to ‘what result we want to achieve’. And the result is, quite frankly, that we want to hire a good candidate as fast as possible. Those invited as interviewees are our potential good candidates, we just need to confirm they are really good. So, this becomes the goal of the interview – confirm that the candidate is good. All right, now we have a very practical goal, let’s explore the best way to arrive at it, shall we? Well, I think we should add one more dimension to our task. I think, many realize that an interview is never abou

Welcome, dear reader! As you see, this is the very first post on this blog, and neither you nor I have an idea how it will further develop. After a very long time of not blogging or writing, I decided to start again. My old blog and writings are long gone, and they would be of no interest now. So, a fresh start… Just let me introduce myself in slightly more detail than my ‘About’ short note. My name is Dimitry Slabko, I am originally from Russia, from the beautiful city of St. Petersburg. Now I reside in Mexico, in a nice cozy little town San Miguel de Allende. I have been programming since late 90’s, and adopted .NET development since its version 2.0, almost from its release date. I did WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WCF, MVC, and even some WebForms. I was very glad to switch to .NET Core, I even thought something along the lines “finally, a properly designed .NET version”. Last quite a few years I have been doing Web, services, and cloud development. Mostly pure backend, pure .