I received a phone call from a headhunter in San Francisco regarding a position in São Paulo. I had just one interview, which was supposed to be with two people: a Brazilian and an Indian.

The interview was scheduled for the end of the day, and only the Indian gentleman showed up.

I was asked to talk about my last year and anything about my other years.

After a few minutes, the Indian gentleman hushed up to technical questions.

I was presented with a laptop, open to Google Chrome's Developer Tools.

First, I was asked what would be printed to the console.log from a JavaScript hoisting trick. It was a very tricky question. In my opinion, this question showed exactly what they were looking for. For me, they seemed to be looking for a "master ninja of JavaScript tricks" developer, which made absolutely no sense.

After that, I was asked to write down code on a piece of paper to identify if all brackets in a given string were closed in pairs, similar to HTML tags. This should return true or false. It should also find incorrectly closed brackets and return false, for instance, with the string "AB ] CD [ EF ] GH [ IJ".

Toward the end, I was asked to describe how to find one specific ball among eight. The question was: You have eight balls of the same size. Seven of them weigh the same, and one weighs slightly more. How can you find the heavier ball using a balance scale? I also had to describe possible outcomes.