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This is incredibly short sighted and defeats the purpose of an interview. You’re not trying to trick the interviewee with a gotcha question, you’re trying to fi
by bluedevil2k 5y ago
This is incredibly short sighted and defeats the purpose of an interview. You’re not trying to trick the interviewee with a gotcha question, you’re trying to find ones with the top skills. Who cares if they can open a modal without JS, when you’re building a front end app, guess what, you’re gonna use JS to open the modal.
Building on my point about gotcha questions, I recently had a React interview and 3/4 of the interview was about currying functions in JS, something that’s never ever done in a Reqct app.
- leephillips 5y agoPlenty of people who represent themselves as "front-end" "developers" know a good amount of Javascript, or at least some frameworks, but barely know HTML and CSS. This question (and some of the others) filtered out those people.
- jdauriemma 5y agoIt filtered out people who didn't know how to use HTML and CSS to render a modal, which is a very specific and not-widely-used HTML/CSS technique.
- leephillips 5y agoIt filtered out people without a good general knowledge of HTML and CSS and the creativity and problem-solving skills to apply that knowledge.
- bluedevil2k 5y agoThere's nothing problem-solving about it - they either know some obscure CSS tag or they don't. You're not really testing any skills at all with the question.