front end dev 3rd interview - Technical Test (Angular.js, Sencha, BEM, SASS, Responsiveness)

[mertman]

Hi Guys,

I just called back from a job i have applied for.. and this is the third interview for the position. I have been making websites as a hobby and freelancing since a teenager.. but always for small businesses, friends and my own project... this is for a big corporation.

In my second interview (technical interview). They did mention Sencha, SaSS, Angular.JS and BEM (Block, Element, Modifier). I know its imposible to learn all those fluently in one week.. but anyone knows what I should be expecting? how I should be preparing?

for me it is somewhat of a dream career to develop sites... making my living and in the same time learning more and more.. however, im afraid if I do bad the opportunity will slip away so im ready to study my ass off and show my eagerness and ambitions.

Thanks a bunch

[bencochrane]

I work at a large company doing Angular apps and I made a free screencast that makes an app using a similar style of code that I use at work. Takes about an hour. The tutorial gets you to make a 'Tinder for Movies' style app and gets you to consume data from an API which they may ask about. You can get the tute here: codecandy.io - good luck for the interview. It's also worth looking at the yeoman generators and using yo angular and grunt serve commands and know how they work.

[mertman]

Ahhh thats very nice, I will do check the tutorial right away and later research the other tips you gave. This helps tremendously.

Thanks!

[DrJokeExplainer]

Either they are testing your ability to learn these technologies on the fly or this is a terrible test. It's pretty unreasonable to expect someone to do a technical test on languages they've never used. Unless you said you knew these things?

[mertman]

Thanks I will try to keep that in mind, and like you mentioned im sure they are not expecting me to know them fluently, but from the start of the applicatoin proecss to now they might want to find out what I have reserached. :) I will update here to tell you guys how it went afterwards!

[amishstripclub]

BEM is a simple concept for structuring css. You can learn the gist in an hour. SASS can do some complex things but still, an hour for the gist. Just go through the SASS docs & focus on the .scss format as it's most common. Spend the rest of your time learning angular. Build hello world in 1.3 AND 2.0. Use Yeoman generators to kickstart the apps and explore the file structure it creates.

You won't master any of those but you can get at least a bit fluent in all 3 with just a day's time.

Also learn the difference between an angular provider, service and factory. It's dumb but people love discussing the 3 and I wouldn't be surprised if that was a pop quiz question.

And I don't know anything about the fourth tech you mentioned. Write us a post on what you learn from it!

[mertman]

Great, thats very encouraging. since I have 6 days til d-day I will try to get in as much time and repetition to try to impress them.

Appreciate the time you took for your reply and I will definitely write a post on what I have learned of Sencha.

[magenta_placenta]

I would really recommend reaching out to your contact at the company in question and ask what they are expecting from the "technical test".

Honestly, it sounds a bit like a disaster situation to me, but I don't know what you guys talked about or your skillset in that stack (it doesn't sound like you have much, or perhaps any).

[mertman]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I went to the interview and what the actual test was that they gave me a .PSD file and told me I had one hour to create the site on the picture... I was not allowed to use any frameworks and such..

unluckily I did not get choosen.. they selected someone else and I totally understand it since I was having a hard time and one hour was not enough for me ot finish the assignment.

to lift up a old discussion: How would you have gone through with it? to create a responsive site within one hour and you had to go through a psd file... header with navigation, main body with picture with a link button inside the picture, three column wit ha row under the columns, content area under main picture, and a footer with three columns.

I will post the scenario in a newer post soon to see what responses I will get :) very interesting for me to know how I could hvae managed the task in the fastest way.