PHP Laravel Full Stack (Javascript is bonus)

Want to join a cloud based production company? We're a tech startup company currently under expansion. Our website solution is new and very desirable to the market. Check us out at [login to view URL] You will need to have: Minimum of 4 years OOP PHP experience Minimum of 2 year Laravel experience Knowledge of how to use Bootstrap Knowledge of how to use GIT and bitbucket some knowledge of Angular is desirable Working environment: You will be working in a team environment with 3 other back end devs and 2 front end Full time work if successful in the luxury of your own home, however, you will need to work to our development team's hours of operation which is from 9am to 5pm GMT+1 You get holiday times off and you can request for additional work time or time off We have 1 team video conference once per week and team slack meeting everyday. When you apply please answer these questions to the best of your ability. Your answers will be reviewed and you'll be invited via messages for a skype interview if you are successful: 1. What will be the values of $a and $b after the code below is executed? Explain your answer. $a = '1'; $b = &$a; $b = "2$b"; 2. If you are about to implement real time messaging and notifications section using Laravel, what is the approach you would choose? How would you do that? 3. If you are about to develop multiple websites with shared business logic but different designs how would you do that? 4. We are implementing a new web application. It is not decided yet what database will we use for it, but you need to progress with controllers. What would you do? What programming pattern would you use? 5. Have you ever used Continuous Integration? What tool? 6. What are the best practices you are using in order to deliver bug free code? 7. How would you solve handling multiple background actions without affecting user browsing speed, e.g. sending e-mail, fetching and parsing data from external sources? 8. Imagine some views are using the same data, how and what would you implement to share it between these? Good luck and we look forward to your answers!