Front Frontend Engineer interview experience (2024)

Front Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly standard sequence: a recruiter call, then a hiring manager call, followed by a take-home assignment, a code review, and then onsite interviews that included a recruiting call and additional hiring manager conversations.

The take-home stood out because it wasn’t just a generic frontend task—it was to build a data layer for a frontend application. They provided a handleEvent function that received events, and the job was to update the application state accordingly.

What surprised me was how ambiguous the guidelines felt. Even after I asked specific questions, I was told they weren’t looking for a single “correct” answer and that I should handle things the way I saw fit. I turned it in and expected to explain decisions later, but I was rejected before the code review because they felt I didn’t handle one edge

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Front Frontend Engineer interview experience

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