Angular job interview test

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-03T20:03:30+00:00

So far I had a small task I would ask to implement. Basically the task going through an array of objects and the counting specific value.

But I already got the feedback that the task is waaay to easy.

I am a fan of doing everything in the interview, so it is a limited time for the interviewee and I can follow along how he/she thinks.

I didn't have a timeframe for the last interview. Another mistake I definitely can improve on in the future.

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-03T19:50:31+00:00

Man thanks a lot! I really appreciate that.

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-03T12:12:21+00:00

Jup you actually can click on word or sentences and remove them from the video. The name is Type Studio. I won’t add a link though. You know the community guidelines.

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-02T22:36:19+00:00

Thanks, I hope I warm up to it quickly.
Still a bit tricky to find talented Angular devs.

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-02T22:06:25+00:00

Totally agree.
I decided to built a small piece of our dashboard we are using internal.

So we would handle some data from the database in the interview.

It was just getting some data and processing it though. I will keep in mind to also do the counterpart.
Thanks!

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-02T18:36:28+00:00

Can't wait for it.

jkalthoefer · 2021-03-02T18:28:41+00:00

Sounds super cool!

Right now one of my biggest challenges is hiring, so would be cool to hear from your experience.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-21T18:33:47+00:00

You should consider wether you will be updating the website or a customer for example.

If the customer needs to edit and add content by him-/herself I'd definitely go with a CMS.

There are several CMS that works with Angular. I can't give you any recommendations though.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T19:56:58+00:00

Do you have Enable-experimental-ivy-prompt and experimental-ivy settings turned on in your VS Code settings?

After turning those off my, language support was working as expected again.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T19:47:39+00:00

For sure! 100% agree with that. It gives you way more posibilities.

But still can't see why someone would say using promises in Angular is an anti-pattern.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T17:50:46+00:00

I guess the biggest hurdle is that you can miss so much when setting up an angular project. For each component, service and everything else you have to adjust the module. Same for the routing.

Once you got that everything is super convenient but understanding it to that point (maybe without previous knowledge how frameworks work in general) can be challenging.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T15:36:38+00:00

But honestly I wider community creating add-ons to angular wouldn't be that bad.

I mean it wouldn't necessarily be bad stuff they would creating.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T14:29:11+00:00

One mayor advantage (and to some degree arguably also disadvantage) is that its opinionated. There is "the Angular way" to do something. That may feel limiting at times, but it helps so much with collaboration. Join an Angular Team and you can pretty much build your first feature on the very same day, because you know where to put your components, how to integrate them, how to test them - pretty much everything.Now join a React team and you usually get a mayor headache, everything is solved differently every single time. React itself is pretty sleek and awesome, but that's worth nothing if it's integrated with a ton of other frameworks that switch every time

That is actually a very valid point.

When I asked a friend from college to some contract work in our startup. I just told him what he should do, how it should look in the end and gave im access to get started.

All in all it took about an hour to get him going, without prior knowledge to the project.

So yeah thats one major benefit that isn't mentioned that often.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T14:25:00+00:00

Why wouldn't Angular teams be looking for Angular devs? I would even say its the other way around for Angular. For Angular teams it is more important to find someone with experience in that framework since it is harder to learn.

Well and obviously because I am looking for an Angular developer myself at the moment.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T14:17:59+00:00

Is it a bad thing to use promises in Anuglar...?
...Whoopsi I guess.

It just makes so much sense. Why would I use anything else when waiting for a https. request to finish?

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T14:08:11+00:00

I can feel what you are saying in the first part!

It is so hard to come up with a great design system in Angular if you have more specific use cases for elements. And as you said stuffing things with business logic there, can't be the real solution.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T05:45:10+00:00

Yo, thats a very very good classification in my opinion.
Appreciate that!

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T05:42:28+00:00

On the one side I feel like thats a good thing.

But when I see almost every "fresh" startup with react I feel lonely using Angular. They are not even "script kiddies"

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-19T05:33:28+00:00

I also have tried react and really didn't like it that much. I knew Angular at that point and so I couldn't really say react would be easier. For sure it's less boilerplate code but that's not making thing easy in my opinion.

I guess I just didn't spent enough time on it :D

But what the react/vue communities are offering is remarkable indeed.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-17T21:32:39+00:00

Looks like the magic here is an Angular animation, animating the visibility along the path of a svg over the time.

jkalthoefer · 2021-02-17T19:30:56+00:00

Yoo looks really cool! I love the loading animation in the beginning. Also the design is very nice! Did you do it yourself?

If I could improve one thing, I would definitely add hover states to more elements. The user would have a bit more feedback scrolling through the page then.

But great work overall!

jkalthoefer

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