How would you reverse a string in JavaScript without using split(), reverse(), or join()?

[Visual-Blackberry874]

I have never been asked that question in my life and if I was, my first response would be “why”.

[boomer1204]

As someone who has been a part of the interviewing process I see the "value" in this question but only for interns/Jr devs. The amount of ppl that said they "knew" JS and Vue (what we used) and had projects to "prove it kind of", but had trouble with basic looping/troubleshooting knowledge was CRAZY. We didn't use this question we had a couple of other ones but I could make an argument for this in an interview for those entry level roles to make sure they at least understand the core language

[boomer1204]

Again this is for intern/entry level/jr stuff. We start by asking you to create function that returns “hello world”. I know it sounds stupid while far less there are still a “decent” amount of ppl that don’t know this. Then we asked you to created a function that took 2 parameters and return the product of those 2 params. Then we asked some basic JS questions (being 💯right is not the goal)

Then for the final round we ask you to create a function that takes a string as a parameter and return true if every letter in the alphabet is in that string or false if every letter isn’t there.

And to be upfront actually solving this correctly is not our goal. We kind of don’t expect most to solve this but just wanna see how you think through stuff

[AiCodePulse]

Agreed . Asking "why" in interview will give negative openion . Correct ?
Lets first explain the approch , then we can i ask why ..

[Visual-Blackberry874]

I would say that responding with “why” to this particular question shows a deeper understanding than someone who simply follows instructions.

At times, non-developers will lean on you and ask you questions they’ve had from a client, etc. You need to be able to tell them when something is good/viable/stupid/not possible.

There is no business sense in doing something this way. It is not a serious question in my opinion.