schalkventer

Feedback for Juniors

I'm currently reviewing applications for a junior front-end position I advertised recently.

For those that applied, it's going to take a while to get back to you. I've gotten about 300 (close to 450 now, since I wrote this) applications. However, I think it would be useful to share some general feedback based on the applications I've received thus far. The goal here is honesty, so I hope it doesn't come across as harsh, but instead as a useful perspective from the other side of the hiring table.

🔥 The tech hiring space is a dumpster-fire at the moment. We need to start with the acknowledgment. It is not that you are not good enough, or doing something wrong. The market is over-saturated with junior applicants. According to Offerzen applications rose by 300% in only 12 months.

Jaid

ESLint rules

The ESM standard is considered stable in NodeJS and well supported by a lot of modern JavaScript tools.

ESLint does a good job validating and fixing ESM code (as long as you don't use top-level await, coming in ESLint v8). Make sure to enable the latest ECMA features in the ESLint config.

• .eslint.json

{

peterbe

version: "2.1"
services:
  web:
    command: ./manage.py runserver_plus 0.0.0.0:8000
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true

wbamberg

Guidelines

This section describes some guidelines to follow when writing HTML examples. It's split into two sections:

• Formal guidelines cover formal aspects of the example, such as how long it should be.
• Content guidelines cover the actual content of the example: that is, what it should include or exclude.

Sometimes formal and content guidelines are at odds. For example, sometimes writing a useful example means making it longer than the formal guidelines ask. Usually, when this happens, we should prioritize content guidelines.

Formal guidelines

noopkat

⚠️ this is now stupidly out of date

Computers

• 13" Macbook Pro 3.3 GHz i7 (late 2016)
• Microsoft Surface Book (2016)

Peripherals

• Dell up3216q 32" monitor

igrigorik

var DOMTokenListSupports = function(tokenList, token) {
  if (!tokenList || !tokenList.supports) {
    return;
  }
  try {
    return tokenList.supports(token);
  } catch (e) {
    if (e instanceof TypeError) {
      console.log("The DOMTokenList doesn't have a supported tokens list");
    } else {

kevin-smets

Default

Powerlevel10k