I’m going to be writing a bit more about practical development topics here over the next few weeks. Code is fun to write about but code takes time. Sharing my experience and opinions on the day-to-day life of a front end engineer I can do with a little less effort. Also, since I’ve been doing it forever and have experience all over the place I feel like I just might have something to share.
Anyway, today I’m going to continue to talk about the technical interview process. This time with an anecdote culled from my time on the other side of the desk.
I was interviewed a while ago by someone who was significantly junior to me. I think he had maybe 3 years of experience. I was supposed to have been interviewed by someone who would have been a peer at the company, but that fell apart and it fell down to a junior resource. He asked me two questions over a span of ten minutes. Both were worth commenting on, but I’m going to focus on the first one as it illustrates something pretty important about who you have interviewing people and what they should be expected to be able to figure out about a candidate.
We get on the phone, trade pleasantries and then he gets started. He asks me the following question:
“You have a div with a width of 300 pixels. It’s got a margin of 10 pixels. How big is the box?”
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