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Re:I will not do a tech interview by YZF on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:07PM (#6251753)
I'll try to turn the table on you. Pick some particular technology that you don't hold in your head. three.js, Angular, Bootstrap, canvas, WebRT - whatever. I'm sure among those we'll find some details you don't have in your head right now and you will look up some APIs/details. Now I'll structure my interview around those topics which I happen to hold in my head since we use them all the time.

I am not a front-end web developer at all. I play with some front-end stuff occasionally. But if I had to work in that area I'm sure I could pick it up very quickly and become very effective. I think you need to differentiate between things people can read up on a day and catch up and things that are more fundamental to how they think and learn.

Re:I will not do a tech interview by imsofuture on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:51PM (#6252107)
What you just described isn't a 'tech interview' though, it's a 'bad tech interview'.
Re:I will not do a tech interview by walshemj on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @02:42PM (#6252453)
I agree a few years ago I had to pick up Pl/1G to look after one of BT's Billing Systems took me all of a week.