Interviewing a potential candidate...

Me: So, how would you rate your JavaScript knowledge?

Him: Pretty good, although I still don't really understand prototypal inheritance.

Me: Yeah, it's hard to understand something which doesn't exist.

...let the flaming begin 😈

Interviewed a dev for a junior role earlier this week...my first question:

const numbers = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3];
let sum = 0;

for (i = 0; i < numbers.length; ++i) {
setTimeout(() => {
sum += numbers[i];
}, 0);
}

// Refactor the preceding code so that the following returns true.
console.log(sum === 0.6);

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He had no idea where to even start, so I asked him to walk through the code with me line by line, he couldn't get past line 1 - literally didn't know what an array was... I walked through the code with him and he just started to look more and more lost.

I didn't even bother with the rest of my questions on OOP, FP, etc...

Am I really expecting too much of somebody that claims to have 2 years practical experience in JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, and PHP?

Do you think this is a problem a junior dev should be able to solve...even if it takes some hand-holding?

When your SCRUM Master cancels the sprint retro because he knows all hell is about to break loose.

When it's your job to fix the 15,000 errors picked up after suggesting to add ESLint to an existing project 😣

When you're reviewing code so bad it would have been easier to just write it yourself...

let self = this;

No. Just no.

First week in a new job and I broke the build in production on a Friday afternoon.

Getting all the shitty half-broken stuff because you're 'just a contractor'...

...and not being allowed to use your own top-of-the-range stuff due to 'data security policies' 😧

Ahhh... the 3 day setup of a new machine. I love working in a corporate environment.

Just about to go in to start a new contract on a greenfield project, using ES5. What is this, the fucking dark ages? I'm not even sure what isn't ES5 anymore...many fails ahead.

No, I can't implement a "pixel-perfect responsive design".

I've ranted so much, this is where they moved me to. They couldn't fire my because I was too valuable an asset to the project.

Senior JS Dev where I'm contracting can't understand why null != "null"