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Re:Front End Interview Handbook by D_B_Koopa on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:17AM (#23887386)
This is already quite dated. Most of the content is geared towards the state of JS in 2013-2015.
Re:Front End Interview Handbook by makapuf on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:26AM (#23887893)
Can you write a quick list of missing concepts ?
Re:Front End Interview Handbook by wildrhythms on Sunday July 19, 2020 @08:19AM (#23888838)
I interview for front-end at a big company (actually a different title, but effectively front-end engineers) and we explicitly do not ask trivia questions, which is what this guide focuses on. I might ask warm-up questions like "a customer says they click a button on the page and nothing happens, how do you investigate?" and that's it. The entire rest of the interview (1hr) is spent on a coding problem where we both walk through and discuss solutions, and I let them code and we talk about their code.

I truly believe that experienced engineers can learn 1000x more about someone's skillset in the first 5 minutes of them coding than any amount of trivia questions.

Re:Front End Interview Handbook by D_B_Koopa on Monday July 20, 2020 @02:07PM (#23900350)
it's more that obsolete concepts like var, AMD and Common.js are focused on.

These techniques are obsolete & lead to fragile code especially when blended with newer concepts like native js imports, let and const.

Re:Front End Interview Handbook by flywheel on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:59AM (#23888258)
It really depends on the job - I'm interviewing jr. devs, and a lot of these questions are good for testing their basic knowledge. Not every front-end job is about cutting-edge javascript.