Interviewer: Who created JavaScript?
Me: ... Seriously?
Interviewer: Completely

WTF? First time I face that kind of question in an interview... For the record, I didn't know the answer, according to Wikipedia Brendan Eich created JS

This kind of questions will take them no where. Why does it matter who created the language instead they should look for your command over language. That would be more productive.

That's a completely irrelevant question.

i don't think that I would disqualify someone over it. but to me that shows passion and interest.

its common knowledge

@calmyourtities No, it isn't.

@calmyourtities yeah you'll never who will bring up the subject, yesterday I was asked who was the founder of Samsung by a BestBuy employee...long story short I'm now banned from buying Samsung products.

Isn't this one of the standard interview questions?? 🤔

@Root a lot of people know it, therefore it is common knowledge

@JKyll its let byu something, i dont remember the whole name

if its something you like and use for an extended period of time on a daily basis then i think you should know who the creator is at a minimum

@calmyourtities

I use chairs on a daily basis. Dont know who is the inventor of chairs. Am I doing something wrong?

@bitsnpieces LMAO made my night

@ryanmhoffman Indeed, the point of the interviews is to find out if you have necessary skills to get the job. Knowing the answer would make me better employee?

@Aitkotw Totally agree on that, I don't see how answering that question would make me more productive

@bitsnpieces do you have a do passion for chairs?

@calmyourtities Well, i do. I use them everyday and they make me a whole lot more productive

Interviewer can ask this question but as a candidate not answering this question should not be a minus point for you.

Dude , I was the interviewer. That question was easy , you should have said Chuck Norris lool

@bitsnpieces touche, friendo!

Funny..my friend had been to an interview once, to a relatively large European bank, as a backend dev. First question was if he knows which holding company owns the bank, what other companies belong to them and who estabilished the bank and when. He was like 'what?'.

@usethedocsluke xD

@usethedocsluke I mean organisational culture has a lot to do with stuff, knowing who created JS really helps no1 with nothing.

@securiter Irrelevant interview question is irrelevant. Tells a lot about the company. No matter if the question is related to the company's history or the technology they use.

@usethedocsluke well, pretty much any question except "can you do shit? If yes, show us" is useless, it's a social contract.

I guess the expected answer is Mozilla...

I would have answered: According to the syntax either by someone quite high on drugs or by someone being rushed to the get the language out of the door way too early.

Maybe the correct answer was Netscape instead of Brendan Eich. In fact, some books about javascript only mention Netscape...

Me thinks @k0pernikus has won the prize! Good answer. The point of the interviewer was probably not for you to give the correct answer, but to see how you react in a situation where you don't know the answer. You all should know tech isn't the main focus in an interview. What's the point to have a super dev if you can't work with him/her?

It just shows that you know facts about the tool that you will be using.

I wouldn't disqualify someone for not knowing the answer, but I will appreciate a candidate who knows why it's called JavaScript, when it was released, the current engines in popular browsers and etc.

Perhaps it doesn't matter if you know or not the answer.

Perhaps your response is what is being measured, in this case, questioning the validity of the question without even attempting to answer gives an indication of how you would respond to a daft question from manglement.

Which may be a positive or a negative depending on if the interviewer knows the last dev burned out trying to deal with stupid shit.

An answer such as "no idea, i could Google it 3 seconds tops" would also be a positive, it shows you are willing to admit where you lack knowledge but know the route to obtain the knowledge.

If you just guess, it shows that you will just bullshit, which is a bad thing for a dev (but great for sales)

@Krokoklemme then i believe you should know who invented the chair

This is what’s wrong with this industry. More than half the interview questions are redundant.

@seraphimsystems Interesting point of view. So, admitting I use stack overflow is a positive thing?

@Darmark sure, you can't be expected to remember everything, but you can be expected to know how to use resources to find the thing.

Einstein once said, never memorize anything you can look up

@seraphimsystems Tell that to college teachers lol

That's like they ask what HTML, CSS, PHP stands for.

It stands for itself, man.

@xewl In regards to PHP i would say to be careful of people that do know what it used to stand for :>

(You don't want those PHP4 script kiddies.)

@xewl somehow that's in the name but if JS' creator is not an anagram of JavaScript your example does nothing for this topic. Acronyms are fun man, it's like a puzzle.

@securiter The sheer amount of acronyms is enough to drive you crazy though.

I'm sure it's been said...

But what a fucking rediculous question. What the fuck does that really prove.

@jesse-bryant It proves you've paid attention in your very first js class. You're hired! 8)

@FunkDelegate I don't remember that from any class lol

@calmyourtities Well, who did? 🤔

@Krokoklemme thomas warren but i sit on a couch

Adam and Eve

@Krokoklemme @calmyourtities
Thomas E. Warren "invented" a Centripetal Spring Armchair - in the 1800's

Afaik, Joseph from Maria already made chairs in year 0. (/Troll)

Psh. Everyone knows that Sun created JavaScript and it's counterpart Java, but that's only used on Microsoft iPhones.

I have NEVER looked up who the creator of a programming language is. Why in the world would I look up and remember that dude when I don't talk to him, instead of doing/remembering something that's actually useful?

@Qwby because idk curiosity

@Krokoklemme I'm curious to know more about technology, not about the inventors of the first ever version of some tech that's changed so much and it's probably controlled by now by a company or big OS community anyway so who cares.

If people like person-cults, that's fine, but I personally got better things to do.

Jesus.

Not an exclamation response. Answer. Everything is created by God in the end. 🙄

@AleCx04 offtopic, but I ruined your perfect devilish "6666" score

@DutulescuRemus haha aww its ok although i would have screamed like a lik girl over the 6666

@AleCx04 6667 is 6666.66666... rounded, so it's still two thirds of 10000 😁

"Who created Javascript?"
"Who cares??"

That would be a good question to check if you know JS or just mugged up it's Wikipedia page before interview, because you would know that answer in that case.