A coding challenge on HackerRank which involved two questions.

I was told by the company that the phone screen would be language-independent and more concentrated on programming fundamentals. But surprise, surprise! The first question I was asked was "Rate your proficiency in the languages you mentioned in your resume on a scale of 1 to 10," and everything that followed was keywords, ways to do things in Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript.

I quote from their email: "We want to hire engineers, not language specialists. Therefore, we’re more focused on where you stand on programming fundamentals, including common data types, design patterns, and data structures; object-oriented design principles; experience with unit testing; modern version control flows; functional programming; and comfort level on the command line."

But yeah, looks like they are in fact hiring language experts who know practically everything on a particular language. Could move this position from entry-level to mid-senior level as well and change the position to front-end developer.

Really disappointed for having wasted my time on this.

TypeScript/Angular specific questions.