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A comment on Ask HN: Should a back end Engineer be able to answer what makes an API RESTful?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Should a back end Engineer be able to answer what... by CodingChef on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:07PM (#15095599)
That is understandable and I'm not a back end Engineer either. But I had an interview with a back end Engineer with like six years of experience. And I really thought that a simple question like this would make them feel at ease because they would know it right away.
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Re:Ask HN: Should a back end Engineer be able to answer what... by byoung2 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:44PM (#15095748)
What types of responses do you get?
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Re:Ask HN: Should a back end Engineer be able to answer what... by CodingChef on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:39PM (#15095934)
- what do you mean? - CRUD? - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

(Question marks are part of the answers, now with the third answer I'm usually fairly happy to begin with and I go into other questions, but that should be the bare minimum).

I've been asked this question as well when interviewing for a frontend position and I just mentioned a few key points and they were very happy about it. But if you're applying for a backend position shouldn't you know more?

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