This guide is compiled from my experiences interviewing at several tech companies in early 2022, ultimately culminating in 6 on-sites and 4 offers. Before we dive into the technical Q&A flashcards I’ve compiled below, I’d like to highlight some caveats: Caveat #1: Most companies might not know how to interview front-end engineers In my experience, many companies sadly don’t have tailored interview…

I am writing this in November, three weeks after the acquisition, and the saga isn’t even over yet! In the inevitable TV show/movie about the acquisition, here are some moments I’d like to see: Act I: 7 months of Uncertainty An employee onboarding at the company on April 4th, 2022, the day Elon Musk announced a 9.2% stake in Twitter to become the largest shareholder. Welcome to 7 months of uncertainty!

A friend of mine recently joined a FAANG company as an engineering manager, and found themselves in the position of recruiting for engineering candidates. We caught up. “Well,” I laughed when they inquired about the possibility of me joining the team, “I’m not sure I’ll pass the interviews, but of…

Sometimes I feel like I lucked into this industry — and I didn’t start learning most of what I needed to know until I started getting paid for the job. If I had to start over, here is the advice I would give myself (someone without a CS degree or…

A little while ago, an engineer scheduled an early morning meeting on my calendar. “Sync on Project X,” it read. The invite was scheduled for an hour, and included another engineer as well as their engineering manager. The goal of the meeting, presumably, was to talk about Project X —…

The task

Use slice! Getting the last character only from a string “asdf”.slice(-1) //”f Getting everying EXCEPT the last character “asdf”.slice(0,-1) //”asd”

What is debounce? Debounce limits the rate at which a function gets invoked. It is typically implemented against button clicks, key strokes on a search bar, etc. It forces a function to wait a specified amount of time before it can be called again, and that delay starts when you finish executing your…

Someone asked me to share about my experiences pair programming over the last 8 or so years — including the times it’s been successful, my thoughts about why it was successful, and the times it was a failure. Let me talk about the successful times first. We jump on Zoom…