Some interview questions for a junior developer

Some thoughts on very basic questions that might be suited to recruiting for a junior post. They aim to discover what exposure the candidate has had to software development practices and how much initiative they have used.

• Have you helped others on your team who are less experienced?
• When you are working with others, how would you make sure the changes you have made are incorporated back into the project's codebase?
• If you find that the software you are using on a project doesn't seem to be a good fit for the problem you are working on, what do you do?