Sooner or later, your manager (or HR) will require you to take part in a selection process.
"Could you prepare the coding exercise for this position?"
If you ask me, the code interview is a necessary evil; while it is arguably broken / unfair / subjective ...it's the best we have 🤷♂️
My 2 cents to the tech-world:
folks, do the code interview you'd like to solve
Idea is quite simple; There is going to be a code interview during the selection process. At least, prepare the one you'd like to solve if you were applying.
Front-end Challenge
I exposed this to my managers. Asked them to have carte blanche to design my very own front-end code challenge.
5 months later I can say everything is going well; so I'm sharing with the community.
What do I avoid? ❌
- Generic js interview questions - don't ask what is a
closure - Already solved algorithms - don't ask how to binary-search a balanced whatever.
- Edgy-Wiki questions - don't ask what is the initial value of the
@@iteratorproperty for whatever.
Why? because those things doesn't matter in the daily work.
- You don't need to define a
closure, you need to use them. - You don't need to code a binary search from scratch, you need to use it.
- You don't need to memorize the ECMAScript standard, you need to use it.
Instead,
What do I focus? ✅
- How do you read code ?
- How do you understand the problem we want to solve ?
- How do you adapt to an already existing code-base ?
- How do you review ?
Result 🐈
With all of this in mind. I created a simple - plain - React app at codepen. I'm planning to analyze the interview exhaustively in this series. But, in a nutshell it's just another:
List of products (cards) in JSON format;
each card has a title, image and price;
clicking on a card, the shopping-cart on top is updated.
Thing is...
There is a reported bug from QA team;
a visual change requested from Design team;
a new feature prioritized from Product team;
and an empty test file with just aTODOin it.
===> code sandbox of the coding interview <===
...To Be Continued.
Cover image Work illustrations by Storyset
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thanks for reading 💚
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