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The three that matter most are Getting to real depth on one product rather than surface knowledge of many; Writing tests and documentation alongside the work, not after it; Git workflow: branches, reviews, rebases. Beyond those, look for working familiarity with Git and GitHub, VS Code or JetBrains, Docker. Everything else on the list above is teachable inside a term — treating it as an entry requirement shrinks your pool without improving the hire.

Learn one application deeply enough to answer questions about it without escalating. That is sized for eight to twelve weeks of supervised work by someone with the fundamentals and no production experience. A second, smaller piece — document and improve one piece of the team’s engineering process — usually fits alongside it. Anything requiring independent production judgement should stay with the reviewer.

It is the bottom of the working band, and appropriate for a smaller city or a shorter commitment. In Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai or the NCR, expect to be closer to ₹40,000 for the same skills — you are competing with every other employer for the same few candidates. Decide where in the ₹15,000–₹40,000 band you sit before the first interview rather than during the offer call.

Ask about something that went wrong. "Walk me through a bug that took you more than a day to find." gets you debugging method and honesty — the single most predictive question, and two follow-up questions on their own example will tell you the depth. Candidates who have only studied the topic run out of specifics almost immediately.

One finished, reviewed piece of work that someone on the team would otherwise have done — not a side project nobody adopts. The deliverables above are sized for eight to twelve weeks of supervised work by a student with the fundamentals but no production experience. If they can demo it and the team keeps using it after they leave, the hire paid for itself.

The "Application" qualifier narrows the work to one product rather than the platform under it. Name the application in the listing — candidates cannot self-assess against "our systems". In screening terms, that means adding one specific check: getting to real depth on one product rather than surface knowledge of many.

"Engineering" framing points at the discipline rather than the job title: process, review, testing and documentation are part of the deliverable, not extras. Say who reviews the work, because that is what the word promises. In screening terms, that means adding one specific check: writing tests and documentation alongside the work, not after it.

No. The posting assistant asks a few short questions — the role, the work, the duration, the stipend — and drafts the description, the title and the skill tags for you. You review and edit everything before it publishes, and you can paste in your own description if you already have one.

Both. The pool covers every major hiring city and hundreds of tier-2 and tier-3 towns, and the role can be posted as remote, hybrid or on-site. For Software Development work specifically, remote widens the pool considerably — filter on skill and availability rather than pin code unless the work genuinely requires presence.