Front end engineer Interview Questions in San Francisco, CA

I haven't known any of them long enough...

Hi. Rich Sternin here. Thanks for posting this. I actually went to each interviewer to ask about that question, because I wanted to make sure it was never asked again... and honestly, I was surprised that anyone at Sentient would ask such an odd question! After speaking with everyone, I *think* you may be thinking of the question one of our folks sometimes asks, which is "Which interviewer did you find the most difficult?" Similar question, but super-different in tone and intent. We had a talk about phrasing these questions differently in the future. Thank you!

Unfortunately, I got asked the exact same question when I was interviewing your company for a front-end role last year. I clearly remember the question. I was really shocked back then and told my friends about the question that I got. It was from my last interviewer.

Nope.

I work at ancestry and will say it's the best company I've ever worked. That being said the HR department is the worst I've ever encountered. Luckily I rarely have to talk or work with them. I'm not kidding when I say we will look for months and find many qualified, experienced and capable people we would love to hire. Unfortunately most of them don't have degrees and HR won't let us hire them. Sometimes we have to settle for smart but inexperienced people who take a long time to train. It's inefficient and costly. HR needs to clean house within its own department.

Legally the degree must align to the job, or they can't require it. Griggs vs. Duke Power, 1972. Stupid practice. Nike has tons of people without degrees in upper levels. Talent means more than a degree.

I did mine in Vue.js which I think worked really well :)

Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in NerdWallet to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of NerdWallet Front End Engineer experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Since I don't have the actual interview code an approximation of my solution was: HTML: <div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> </div> CSS: .star { height: 20px; width: 20px; background: #FFCC11; display: inline-block; } input:checked ~ label .star { background: #ccc; } input[type="radio"] { display: none; }

The key in these questions is to cover the fundamentals, and be ready for the back-and-forth with the interviewer. Might be worth doing a mock interview with one of the AirBnB or ex-AirBnB Front End Engineer experts on Prepfully? They give real-world practice and guidance, which is pretty helpful. prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Code basic javascript model.

Hello World <div></div> function Button() { const [yesNo, setYesNo] = React.useState('Yes'); return ( { setYesNo(yesNo === 'Yes' ? 'No' : 'Yes') }} style={{ fontSize: '3rem', padding: '1rem', width: '10rem' }} &gt; {yesNo} ); } function App({children}) { return ( <div> <div> {children} </div> </div> ); } ReactDOM.render( , document.getElementById('root') );

No answer to provide.

In these sorts of interviews you really need to drill down and understand what the interviewer is looking for. A good way to simulate a real interview experience is to do a mock with one of the Thumbtack Front End Developer experts on Prepfully, rated super strongly on TrustPilot... prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Algorithm question regarding a certain hard Leetcode question

Do you remember the problem?