Interviewed 6 candidates yesterday.

all of them had 2+ years of experience in web but none of them know how to use selectors in jQuery other than '#' and '.'

LEARN YOUR STUFF PROPERLY 😠😠😠😠

But they could have still learned to apply it on the job, right? I've used jQuery before but I can't remember how to pull it out of my ass either...

Was working with jQuery a requirement?

@codeclod They are basically css-selectors, not intricate advanced ways of using JQuery... This is just frightening. 😞

@DataSec
no but they added it on their resume so I asked.

@perix2
No Sir .. !!!
Still learning something new every day.

@Arpit05 Oh alright, well then 😅

@Chefren is it? I see it and think "omg u don't know X about Y? Wtf?!"

Or maybe their experience was from building SPA's where they created all their dom-elements in js, while keeping the references.
No need for any lookups.

jQuery has some uses, but I still prefer using vanilla JS.

Don't discard a potential employee for a skill they can learn in less than a week, hire them for a skill you cannot teach them in a month (like proper sw development)

Just really for curious. If i answered something like:

"Ha well, i can do also,

input[type=''] or div[class="ˆ-foo"].
Actually we can filter by a set of expression composed or not and walk as a tree inside the DOM and find what i want"

Would be enough?

@Chefren was thinking the same thing

@marceloch2
in resume some wrote they know 60% of jQuery some wrote 80%.
if you ask anything besides '#' and '.' they are blank.
In my mind I was like REALLY that's your 80%-60% of jQuery ?