I got a call from a recruiter yesterday. The employer wants to get me in for an interview. It's for a fairly big company and I'm beginning to feel really nervous. I hate the place I'm at and I need this job. Not just for money but also to retain my sanity.

The interview is with a development manager, I wonder what kind of questions he/she will ask. Ahhhh how do I prepare for the unknown? 😱

As long as you can (roughly) justify what's on your resume, explain what your working on now and tell them a few things you've learned based on experience, that should be good enough right?

Just relax. Worst thing you can do is panic. Also be honest with them about your skills and back it up with examples or problems you dealt with.
Did you go through a technical test?

Also I'm kind of in the same boat. Don't like the place I'm at and have to actually move to London to find something better. Got some interviews coming up on Tuesday next week :D

@Jase yep personal projects or your last work stuff whatever. Don't worry that nothing is ready to get deployed. Most software is in a continual state of development, and half of it never gets deployed anyway.

Anyway for personal projects it's basically a learning experience right, and who wouldn't like that? The fact that you even play with this stuff when nobody is paying you says a lot anyway!

@Jase you're most likely going to be given a quick technical test or a code sample that needs debugging. Just treat it as any other day in the office, be friendly and engage in the discussion. Don't let them ask you questions and make it feel one sided. Respond and make sure you have plenty of questions to ask as well. For example:

What's their stack?
What platform they run on?
What are their day to day tools (jira, trello and so on)
What's the culture in the office like?
Do their developers work closely with PMs or do they work closely with the whole company?
Do they do or ever thought of open sourcing some of their projects?
Are they open to new ideas or improvements? (You'd be surprised how many are not)

And so on.

Do you know about the Joel test for companies? Try to ask them (but don't try to make it look like these are questions you came up with, they probably know about them. Still good questions to ask).
And then have a prepared answers for standard questions:
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What are your 5 strengths?
5 weaknesses?
How have you experienced sharing of knowledge?
What assets would you bring to our company?
Tell us about a time when you didn't do so well.

About your personal projects, do you have them on version control? Pushed to github?

Anyway, the interviews are more often about human contact than skills (within limits, of course). Be genuinely interested in what they do, ask questions and be sure you're actually interested in the answers.

Good luck!

@Jase so how did it go?

@Jase it doesn't sound like a nice place anyway... Congrats on not starting at a shitty place! ;)

@Jase if you know python and live around West Yorkshire area let me know!