Top Questions and Concepts for a Front-end Engineer

July 26, 2016

Here are a few lists of some of the top questions and concepts you should be able to answer, explain, and code as a front-end engineer. I utilize the majority of these concepts everyday at work, and have been asked to answer and code these questions and concepts in front-end coding interviews. Typically, software engineering interviews will have on average 3 – 5 rounds: first over the phone behavioral and trivia (no coding), second over the phone coding interview in some collaborative code editor, in person interview on the white board with 1 or more engineers.

The language that you will most likely be coding in is JavaScript, but you may also pick a secondary language such as Python or Java especially for the algorithm section. I typically use JavaScript whenever I am asked a web and UI related question like code a slideshow. I use sometimes use Python or Java for the algorithm part of the interview because those languages give me a lot more built-in helper functions than JavaScript to help me solve my problem. It is important that you are proficient in any languages that you choose during the interview process because you are timed, and constantly … Read More