To be honest none of these questions really give any insight into the skills/experience of the applicant as most of them come down to just reciting Wikipedia en

To be honest none of these questions really give any insight into the skills/experience of the applicant as most of them come down to just reciting Wikipedia entries. If you want to get a better understanding of the applicant, try asking them to solve simple problems relevant to the position instead of performing a pop quiz. In case of Javascript such a question could be: Users are reporting that page X takes a long time to load. How would you go about finding out why this page takes long to load and where time is being spent? What are the benefits and drawbacks of your approach, and what are the alternatives?" The phrasing is just an example, but the idea is to: 1. Propose a problem that one can solve in e.g. 5-10 minutes 2. Ask them to think about the problem, their approach, benefits, drawbacks, etc 3. Have them deal with a problem that's actually relevant to the position, giving the applicant a better taste of what it's like to work at the organisation