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Is that a great interview question? It strikes me as the sort of thing where a positive doesn't tell you all that much additional about someone's engineering ab

Is that a great interview question? It strikes me as the sort of thing where a positive doesn't tell you all that much additional about someone's engineering ability, nor does a negative.

tracker1 11y ago
It isn't the only thing I judge on, but when you see a stack of resumes where people put their JavaScript knowledge as "expert" ... I expect it to be a relatively easy question. It comes down to a level of honesty, and when someone says they are an expert with a language, they better know that language pretty well. Like "what are the falsy values in JavaScript" (I usually let people get away with 3+ of them) In the browser a very primary purpose for JavaScript is input validation... this includes strings... being able to reuse a method for internal validation is useful as well. Knowing how to do something useful in a language is a perfectly fine interview question. It isn't like I'm asking people to write a bubble-sort, or how an IEEE 754 number is structured and how that relates to JS... Or how to determine the number of marbles in a given jar... or any other of other questions I've been asked in an interview. I'm asking someone to validate a simple input in one of the most widely used programming languages on the planet. Sorry to go on a rant.. but hiring is hard, and when you are looking at someone why says they have a lot of experience with the skills that you are looking for (full-stack javascript/node)... expectations shouldn't be too low. I'm more than happy to talk to people with other backgrounds and skills... I've hired plenty of newer/eager learners who don't have a lot of experience, but demonstrated the ability to work through a problem. In my mind effort/ambition/trying-stuff means more than specific experience.