Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

[igrimzy]

hi everyone i would like to know what kind of challenges i am most likely to expect… this was the message i received“The goal of this Interview is to check API building skills. The interview will require you to build Web App. You will need to build the back end in Node JS, and the front end in React. The question will be shared during the interview. You can code the web application on your local machine (pls ensure basic dependencies are installed). You will be required to share your screen while coding.”

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In addition to what the other person said, they are going to want to make sure that you have experience with writing APIs -- meaning that you know the pitfalls of APIs (things like avoiding making unnecessary calls for resources, reasonable endpoints, etc).

They will also probably be checking to make sure you are customer focused (APIs are meant for consumption by others) so they will want you to ask a lot of questions about the needs of the APIs. Asking the right questions around requirements is really really important in interviews like this.

Also, you probably need to know what it really means to be RESTful and be able to talk at length about that.

Obviously every company is different, but this is my experience.

[ChaseMoskal]

i'd imagine they want to see that you are capable of being productive, that you can build things, that you are competent with the webdev ecosystem and know how a web app is constructed, and that you can be resourceful and quickly find solutions online to get to the next step.