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We finally launched the new Isobar North America site. It had been in a soft-launch phase for several weeks as we worked out the kinks. Now it’s official.
I worked on it and, amazingly enough for an internal project I’m happy with it.
Continue reading “A New Site I Worked On is Live (officially)”
And here it is:
CSS 101 from Matt Murphy on Vimeo.
It’s pretty good- minus the difficult with actually showing the jsfidddle code on the projector.
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?”
Continue reading “More On Interviewing Front End Engineers- If You Ask About Something, Really KNOW It (With an Example Based on the W3C Box Model)”
I’m a big fan of the Graded Browser Support table from the fine folks at Yahoo! It was the official foundation for our browser support policy at Cramer and I still look to it now for hints into what one of the most mass-market of all sites thinks about the browser landscape.
Continue reading “Yahoo!’s Graded Browser Support to Downgrade IE6 in Q1 2011”
We’re hiring in my group.
Cool, right?
So, I’m once again interviewing. Yay me.
Since I’m no longer running a group I don’t have to worry about any of the administrative type things (“this is what the company is about,” “this is what we do,” etc.) That’s good as it just allows me to test people on technology. That’s really my favorite part of the interview process anyway. Win.
The following is a tiny snippet I’ve been using to test people’s knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals.
Why share it here? For one thing it’s kind of interesting to me since it’s a very small snippet but it can expose a lot about the way the person approaches the language. Basically, if you can get this and you’re still pretty inexperienced you’ve probably read a book, taken a class or read a blog post or article written by someone smart. That’s a bonus.
And then there’s the Easter Egg part. Meaning, I’m still going to be using this going forward with the answer sitting right out here in the open. Why?
Here’s how I see it. If a candidate:
Continue reading “Interviewing With Me? Here’s an Easter Egg. I’ll ask you this JavaScript Question During the Interview.”