Mock Junior Front End Web Developer Interview with Mike Chen and Silvia

Mike (a former AirBnb Hiring Manager) interviews an aspiring Junior Web Developer to see if she's job ready. Will Mike "hire" her or must she continue to level-up?

00:00 Introduction
01:26 Opening questions
04:20 Technical challenge
53:28 Mike's feedback
58:46 Debrief with Alex
01:04:32 Outro

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[ruthstorm]

Nobody asked me such questions during my junior processes. Last time I had to develop a project ( take home assignment) and after investing quite a lot of time I did not even get feedback on my project, they just said other projects were better. So no place for improvement there. I have the feeling companies at these early stages just feel they can take time from you but give nothing in exchange during selection processes and I think this needs to change and interviews should be more like this one, a nice conversation with useful feedback.

[bae]

I had no idea that interviews could be this way. This completely boosted my confidence to try with my current skill level. Thanks Alex and scrimba.

[licokr]

As a non English native speakers, I was impressed by her confidence during the process. This is a ideal interview. As a person who preparing for interviews as a frontend engineers, I have a fear of rejection from interviews. What if I do something wrong or not find a best solution of a question I get. I couldn't get rid of this kind of thought but this video gave me a motivation. Basically, we should help each other. It was a good opportunity to learn technical skills for the intervieww and it was also a good opportunity to learn how to give advice to colleagues and lead for the interviewer. Thank you for the great video. I learned a lot from the video. :)

[abubalo]

This content keeps getting better. I really need this type of unfiltered interview.

[mack]

this is gold! please continue this series it’s very insightful and inspirational

[JavierLopez]

Definitely some motivation watching this video and so happy to find out about Scrimba as well. Silvia did a great job!

[farhanbegg]

As a frontend developer I have never gotten an interview this easy

[cubespeed]

Ahh!! That was so great to watch. I want to have a technical interview like this. I really appreciated seeing this and knowing that talking through the process and also talking with the interviewer can really serve you well in this situation. I always imagined this portion to be in complete silence except maybe for the steady drip of my sweat on the keyboard 😂 Great job Silvia, and congratulations!

[techknowledgebase]

It's observations: Key is missing. Provide key to card when returning inside map. Card - Flexbox. Img alt for accessibility ☺️

[sobiah]

This was really insightful, I've been using React frameworks for so long I got slightly thrown off by the use of pure JS...but honestly so much more confident in my skills now

[vinmixtojin]

I faced mostly interviews about DSA and more engineering oriented.I never expected an interview could be this easy.

[xiongmoua]

Glad to see relevant coding questions for the job in question.

[__gabrielog]

I’m learning code to be a web developer, I’m no English native speaker so when I think about an interview It scares me a lot, thanks for helping me to be prepared for it (Sorry if I made any mistakes writing, I'm still learning English and I tried to do it without translator) 😄

[ashmoreno]

This was so much fun to watch, thank you so much!

[downanddirtytruth]

This guy is really good at helping you to feel comfortable.

[sugaslate]

I haven’t used react yet, but. I feel confident I can do this with some novice previous experience w html, css, Js, and python. Thanks for this confidence boost!

[thecomicpunch]

I am taking a React course, so this video shows me a lot.
Thank you!

[americatoken]

Impressed! Good Job! I did 2 interviews once, in a white board I failed miserably, the 2nd one I passed HR rounds and project manager but when i did last interview with Techlead interviewer asking about recursion and fibonnacci he put a nail in my coffin! I felt like an ant squashed by a bulldozer. 😢😢😢

[blue-jkqu]

Thank you, guys, for this video :)
Silvia you did an amazing job here!

[mcfliermeyer]

such a pleasure to watch and very informative. thanks to sylvia and mike and alex!