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In my first frontend interview at 18, the interviewer tested me on the most basic thing. He could have asked more difficult questions that I might have had the
by neontomo 3y ago
In my first frontend interview at 18, the interviewer tested me on the most basic thing. He could have asked more difficult questions that I might have had the answer to, but instead he asked about markup.
“In this first line of HTML it says <!doctype html>, what will happen if we remove it and why?”
Unfortunately, it discouraged me at that age to try again for a long time, but it stuck with me.
- flappyeagle 3y agothat seems like trivia
- codingdave 3y agoIt wasn't trivia back in the day, it was a basic yet critical piece of getting your site to behave consistently across browsers. But it is definitely a dated question.
- neontomo 3y agoYeah this was many years ago but the point was not about HTML, it was making sure I knew the basics.