Interview questions for an eCommerce website
e-commerce
Solution
- knowledge of how to perform payment transactions using various APIs.
- knowledge of legalities surrounding it. Such as storing personally identifiable information, card numbers, etc and why you should avoid it like the plague.
- knowledge of encryption and how to apply it. At rest, in motion (ssl), etc.
- knowledge of standard cart functions and data structures associated with that
- knowledge of products, properties of products, and how they can be sliced and diced.
- knowledge of advanced pricing models.
- Can explain how a gateway, processor, internet merchant account, and a bank all interact.
If you ace those, then I'd say you were an ecommerce website developer.
Problem
Hello I recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science this December and am currently on the Job Hunt looking in the area of web design/programing. I have not had any jobs in a computer science related field. Anyways I got a question-air back from one company that I am suppose to answer. The first question is "Please describe your experience developing for an eCommerce website." I fully intend to answer the questions truthfully, yet I need to write more than "none". So what I would like to know is what kind of skills do you think the company may be looking for or what kind of skills may be required of a an eCommerce website developer? I would like to know this so I can have better understanding of how my experiences can relate. I would like to emphasis my existing non-professional experience and indicate how it applies. My assumptions is that I should mention my experience with server-side languages and database. Perhaps web-server building and the site design aspect... Thanks for all your help, feel free to ask me questions.