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Our history
Interview
Community history / Denver Tech Interview Meetup
Interview
without consequence.
A community and interview-practice experience to help developers walk into the real thing more prepared.
A look back at Savvato's work
Mock Interviews
The idea
A place to practice, without the stakes.
The Denver Tech Interview Meetup grew around interview preparation and shared learning. Mock interviews gave developers a chance to practice the conversations, coding problems, and technical explanations that can be hard to rehearse on your own.
Participants could focus on coding exercises, language fundamentals, databases, design patterns, or other areas relevant to the jobs they hoped to pursue. The goal was to be more prepared and comfortable when a real interview arrived.
This is a retrospective about Savvato's interview-practice work, not an active meetup calendar or a booking page.
How it worked
Practice made practical.
Mock interviews turned an intimidating process into something developers could prepare for deliberately.
Work through problems
Practice whiteboard exercises, coding, system design, and questions about the tools behind everyday software.
Identify what to review
Use feedback to identify fundamentals worth revisiting, then try again with greater confidence.
The original interview tracks
Four paths to practice.
Instead of sending you to the old website, we've summarized the original role descriptions here.
FRONTEND / ENTRY LEVELEntry-Level Frontend Developer
Focus on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the DOM, and communicating with backend APIs.
- Build clean interfaces and understand responsive development.
- Discuss JSON, REST, framework basics, and asynchronous code.
- Show examples of your work, discuss Git, and practice explaining your choices.
FRONTEND / EXPERIENCEDExperienced Frontend Developer
Go beyond implementation to design decisions, maintainability, and delivery.
- Translate UX designs into responsive interfaces.
- Explain tooling, asynchronous behavior, browser architecture, and REST integrations.
- Discuss code reviews, Agile workflows, performance, and engineering tradeoffs.
BACKEND / ENTRY LEVELEntry-Level Backend Developer
Practice the foundations of services, business logic, and persistence.
- Design REST endpoints and supporting services.
- Discuss testing, SQL, object-oriented principles, and basic data structures.
- Explain your approach to unfamiliar problems and how you review code.
BACKEND / EXPERIENCEDExperienced Backend Developer
Demonstrate practical systems thinking as well as implementation skills.
- Describe service architectures, integrations, databases, and cloud services.
- Explain automated testing, design patterns, scalability, and technical debt.
- Discuss authentication, authorization, problem decomposition, and team processes.
These are summaries of the original mock job descriptions, preserved here for historical context.