I'm looking for work as a programmer, and I think I understand the throttle question and approximately what a solution would look like, although I would need research to actually write one. Debounce sounds easy though. I'd love to talk about your company and any opportunities you might have open, my email address is [email protected]

Are you hiring frontend JS devs or backend Node.js devs? If a backend dev doesn't understand the question and can't implement a basic debounce function then you are setting yourself up for a completely broken backend.

I've found that JS hiring in particular is very tricky because every frontend dev that has used a little jquery suddenly thinks they can create a server, which is completely inaccurate.

Interview questions like this can help you trim it down to the .5% who are actually capable Node.js devs.

I did an interview where they asked me exactly that. I got to a solution, but it took over a half hour which was too long and I wasn't hired. I barely understood closures at that time though! Today I could some thing like that so quick...