Interview questions

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Questions from many of the interviews I did earlier this year. 
I've kept it honest in regards to my answers, so those are answers under pressure and me being rather nervous.

Add comments and/or suggested answers in the file- or add a new file for a new question you have been asked recently.

Let's keep the conversation friendly and remember that interviews are hard to do (and most the companies treated me with respect and understanding).
Also, let's keep in mind that its easy to think up the perfect answer *afterwards*- I certainly know I would have changed answers on many of the questions :D

ECMA 5

Context: Questions asked to verify how proficient I was in JavaScript

What was added in ecmascript 5?

My reply: 
I cannot remember exactly what was added or when, and probaly would struggle answering for older versions for other languages or platforms as well. I can however share a few things about ecmascript 6 as I'm keeping an eye on that.

No follow up question

Pair programming

#Context: agile development/practices

How often did you pair swap?

My reply: 
It depends, but we try to rotate often to avoid locking pairs. A swap each day is common, pairing for a whole week rare.
There are always exceptions, but we try to rotate often to get better at communicating, avoiding just a few holding knowledge about specific features in the system that everybody should know, and to get new perspectives as well as learn and evaluate code better
We also do cross disciplinary pairing with UX devs and QA. I quite enjoy those pairing sessions.