My interview question topics

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CSS

• How does the cascade work
• Box Model
• Preprocessors
• Class naming schemes
• CSS Frameworks
• Position absolute vs relative
• How do you center things vertically
• What can you do to manage the css of large projects?
• Why is use of !important discouraged?

JS

• How do closures work?
• What does this refer to? How can you change that? Why would you need to change it?
• What happens when you type something in the address bar and hit enter?
• Have you ever used partial application?
• What is the difference between map and reduce?
• What is the prototype property?
• You mess around with ES6+?

React

• Why would you want to override shouldComponentUpdate?
• What is the difference between state and props?
• What is your preferred way of dealing with state?

Backbone

• What's the difference between view events and model events?

Web Perf

• Boss tells you a page is slow, what do you measure and check? What kinds of things can be tried?
• Working on a carousel and the animation is choppy, what can you do to fix it?

Bonus

• A11y
• XSS
• How do you stay up to date?
• What makes code good?

Curiosity

Can you think of something interesting you learned recently related to web tech?

Passion

Communication

• You ever have to push back or something?

Flexibility