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Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview? by pauljaworski on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:55PM (#12287875)
Here are a few questions/problems I was asked in from-end interviews a couple months ago:

Write a function that accepts an array of ints and a target number. If two of the numbers in the array can add up to the target, return their indices. (aka Two Sum)

Write a function that accepts an int x and prints a spiral of "#"s so that the number of "arms" in the spiral equals x.

Write a function that accepts a month and a year, and draws a calendar view of that month.

Given a non-negative int x, repeatedly add all its digits until the result has only one digit.

I think I was also asked something that involved a tree structure, but I can't remember the specific problem.

I thought all of those questions were fucking stupid. The good interviewers, IMO, gave me a "take-home" problem of building some mini front-end app that hit an API, and the really fun one involved reverse engineering an unpublished API - that's how I got my current job.

I spent a lot of time studying the h5bp Front End Interview Questions[1], and the only front-end specific question I was asked was, "What is an SVG sprite?" during an initial phone chat with a CEO.

1. https://github.com/h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questi...

Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview? by enraged_camel on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:05PM (#12288206)
>>The good interviewers, IMO, gave me a "take-home" problem of building some mini front-end app that hit an API, and the really fun one involved reverse engineering an unpublished API - that's how I got my current job.

I agree with you, but whenever this subject comes up, a lot of folks here on HN complain that they have full-time jobs and families and don't have time for "take-home" questions.

Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview? by pauljaworski on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:57PM (#12299717)
I understand that point, but I just personally hate the stress and the irrelevance of the "over-the-shoulder" algorithm problems that a recent CS grad would be almost more suited to answering. If I'm really interested in working for a company, I have no issue spending a couple hours building a little app to prove my chops.
Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview? by hifumi on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:45AM (#12290755)
It sound like those people don't want to devote the time to get a new job. And thus don't really want the job.