Senior Web Developer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
LinkedIn contacted me, presumably from a search of their own site.
I was contacted by email, which led to a phone interview. The phone interview asked several fit and interest questions.
The phone interview was followed by two pair-programming interviews in which JS Fiddle was used to determine my skillset.
The first interview focused on general style and markup questions, and the second focused on JS Fundamentals and pattern questions.
Based on the interview and some of the more advanced JS questions, I was fairly confident that I was out. The exercises weren't complicated, but it was obvious that I had a lack of experience in using them in application development (up to this point, I had been more of a corporate vanity site developer).
Questions
Because they were manipulating large amounts of data, it was very important to have a firm grasp of JSON and API manipulation. It was important to have a good grasp of data binding technologies and their limitations. It would have been good to have a better grasp on various JS development patterns.
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LinkedIn Work Experiences
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