General Technical Questions

Question 1

What did you learn yesterday/this week?

Question 2

What excites or interests you about coding?

Question 3

What is a recent technical challenge you experienced and how did you solve it?

Question 4

When building a new web site or maintaining one, can you explain some techniques you have used to increase performance?

Question 5

Can you describe some SEO best practices or techniques you have used lately?

Question 6

Can you explain any common techniques or recent issues solved in regards to front-end security?

Question 7

What actions have you personally taken on recent projects to increase maintainability of your code?

Question 8

Talk about your preferred development environment.

Question 9

Which version control systems are you familiar with?

Question 10

Can you describe your workflow when you create a web page?

Question 11

If you have 5 different stylesheets, how would you best integrate them into the site?

Question 12

Can you describe the difference between progressive enhancement and graceful degradation?

Question 13

How would you optimize a website’s assets/resources?

Question 14

How many resources will a browser download from a given domain at a time?
What are the exceptions?

Question 15

Name 3 ways to decrease page load (perceived or actual load time).

Question 16

If you jumped on a project and they used tabs and you used spaces, what would you do?

Question 17

Describe how you would create a simple slideshow page.

Question 18

If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?

Question 19

Explain the importance of standards and standards bodies.

Question 20

What is Flash of Unstyled Content? How do you avoid FOUC?

Question 21

Explain what ARIA and screenreaders are, and how to make a website accessible.

Question 22

Explain some of the pros and cons for CSS animations versus JavaScript animations.

Question 23

What does CORS stand for and what issue does it address?

Question 24

How did you handle a disagreement with your boss or your collaborator?

Question 25

What resources do you use to learn about the latest in front end development and design?

Question 26

What skills are needed to be a good front-end developer?

Question 27

What role do you see yourself in?

Question 28

Explain the difference between cookies, session storage, and local storage?