Viewfinder
This app shortens and simplifies the setup for Hack Reactor technical admissions interviews.
- Automatically pulls candidate information from interviewer's calendar
- Finds and displays results of previous interviews by candidate
- Generates fresh Codestitch pad
- Suggests prompt to use
- Creates copy of selected prompt in the correct month's folder, and displays it in the app, with one click
- Schedules correctly-named Zoom call in one click
It makes it easier to conduct the interview, too!
- Prepopulates script snippets with candidate's name and relevant URLs
- Makes it easy to take time-stamped notes, either by time of day or time since interview start
- Consolidates prompt document and notes into one window
- Keeps a running count of positive and negative notes on the candidate
Installation
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Clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/samliebow/viewfindercd viewfinder
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Run the install.
npm i
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Add the configuration files
config.jsandstaticTiHistory.jsto the repo root.
Use
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Build the bundle, start the server, and launch the webpage.
npm start
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If the page isn't already open, go to
http://lvh.me:3033.lvh.meresolves to127.0.0.1(localhost); this app uses it because Google OAuth doesn't work normally without a domain name. -
Log in to Zoom when you're redirected there.
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Sign in to Google with your Hack Reactor email, using the link in the top left.
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Follow the instructions under 'Setup'.
Acknowledgments
Viewfinder is an elaboration on Interview Noter by Kirk Guinto. Kirk came up with the idea of an app that would consolidate the interview materials, and wrote most of the code that doesn't have to do with API calls. I wouldn't even have gotten started working on this without him.
Interview Noter was in turn inspired by Autohorse by James Jelenko, a tool for automatically timestamping and adding up notes which was the basis for the Notes component.