I plan on interviewing Flex candidates in the near future and I'm looking for some good (read: not incredibly difficult) Flex development questions.
Any input from the Stackoverflow community? If you post a possible question, the answer is also appreciated (but not required).
Q: Give me the advantages/disadvantages of Raster vs. Vector images within Flex.
Explain the UIComponent lifecycle, including important methods like initialize(), createChildren(), etc.
Explain the invalidation model and how it works for properties, measuring and the display list.
Name three different ways to achieve data binding
Explain the event model in Flash. Describe how bubbling events works. Explain what a weak-referenced event listener is and why you'd use it.
Describe what the IResponder interface consists of and how it is used.
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My $0.02. You are free to rearrange. This is just a subjective viewpoint, please let me know why you're down modding?
You may want to ask them what MVC architectures they are familiar with (EasyMVC, Cairngorm, etc.)
Jesse Warden, a prominent Flex developer, recently posted a decent list of Flex interview questions on his blog. Each question includes an explanation for why you might want to ask it. The only one I'd argue with is the last one, but that's more to do with the fact that he tends to work on more design-centric projects with heavier timeline-based assets than a lot of Flex developers.