G2I Frontend Engineer interview experience

First I recorded myself answering written questions, which was already a different vibe than a live interview.

In the next stage, the questioning focused on obscure JavaScript behavior and even included claims that some of this knowledge was “baseline.” I ran into details like how setTimeout behaves with a minimum throttle and how it relates to Promise resolution timing, even when the timeout value is set to zero. It was the kind of information that I wasn’t carrying in memory, and what threw me off wasn’t the concept itself—it was the expectation that I’d have that edge-case timing behavior