Web Developer Interview Questions

Use these 13+ Web Developer interview questions to assess candidates from every angle: warm-up, role-specific skills, behavior, and problem solving. Adapt them to your process, or generate a custom set with the AI tool below.

Jasmin Erge

Written by Jasmin Erge, HR Content Specialist at Hirex. Reviewed by the Hirex Recruitment Team. Last updated July 15, 2026.

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Welcoming questions

  1. Can you tell us about yourself and show us something you built recently?
  2. What kind of web work do you enjoy most: marketing sites, applications, or something else?

Role-specific / technical competencies

  1. Walk us through how you turn a design file into a responsive, accessible page.
  2. How do you diagnose and fix a page that loads slowly?
  3. Which frameworks or CMS platforms have you worked with, and how do you choose between them?
  4. How do you handle browser compatibility issues in practice?
  5. What does accessibility mean in your daily work beyond alt tags?

Behavioural & culture fit

  1. Tell us about a disagreement with a designer over feasibility. How did you resolve it?
  2. Describe a launch that went wrong. What happened and what did you change afterwards?
  3. How do you keep learning as web technologies change?

Problem-solving / case

  1. A landing page converts poorly and marketing suspects page speed. How do you investigate?
  2. The client wants a feature that will hurt performance badly. How do you handle the conversation?
  3. Production is broken after a dependency update and the deadline is today. What are your steps?

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