Front-End Web Dev Interview Preparation

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High Level Questions

• Can you detail your common development workflow from beginning to end?
• What types of things do you consider when trying to build a cross-browser web solution?
• What do you do when you don't know how to do something?
• How do you continue to learn and sharpen your skills in light of how quickly things change?
• What is an exciting project that you've worked on recently?
• What makes you most interested about this position?
• What is a project you've been on recently that you really enjoyed?
• Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years (professionally)?
• What area or areas in the Front-End are you weakest at?

Low Level Questions

HTML

• What is Responsive Web Design?
• Where would you typically put your styles and scripts?

CSS

• What is the difference between a CSS reset and Normalize?
• What is an SVG and why might you use it?
• What is a CSS pre-processor and why might you use it?
• What is a CSS post-processor and why might you use it?

JavaScript

• What JavaScript frameworks or libraries do you use?
• What is the different between querySelector and querySelectorAll?
• What is the global namespace and how can you protect against it?
• What is an IIFE and why do developers use it? Are there more modern ways to get around using this technqiue?
• What is the difference between call, apply, and bind?
• What is event delegation and why is it important?
• What does the term hoisting mean in JavaScript?
• What is the difference between comparing vars with == vs ===
• When you compare arrays with JavaScript, what is it doing?

React

• What type of architecture do you use to control the flow of state through your app?
• What technique do you use once you find a performance bottleneck in your app?
• What is your experience with Immutability in your app?
• What is the difference between the Higher Order Component pattern and Render Props?

Performance

• What tip, tricks, techniques, tools do you use to keep your website/webapp fast?

Testing

• What are some good reasons why you might want to unit test your code?
• What unit testing tools do you use?

Linting

• What is code linting and why would someone want to use it?

General Feedback

• Be confident in yourself. Share what you know, and admit up-front what you don't.
• Be passionate about your craft, but don't be consumed by your craft.
• It's okay and preferred to say you don't know something when you are asked.
• If you don't know the exact wording or terminology, don't worry. Try explaining the concept with different words.
• We want to see someone with a potential to learn, apply, and be mentored.

Resources

• https://github.com/h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
• http://thatjsdude.com/interview/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/preparing-front-end-job-interview/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/5-typical-javascript-interview-exercises/
• https://github.com/rmurphey/js-assessment
• http://elijahmanor.com/css-for-developers/
• http://elijahmanor.com/javascript-smells/

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