I think you're right about having to painfully learn those concepts if you've been programming seriously for at most year. Anything JS-specific on the test can be solved with a few Google searches.
Senior positions should require skills in more abstract domains such as scalability and iteration. Code exams don't really quantify things like that. I would be skeptical going anywhere with a company which spends time asking you about floating point!
P.S. Questions about currying & "callbacks"? It's about continuations/futures and function literals these days IMO;)
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I couldn't agree more. I don't think anyone who is invited as for a senior developer position and get asked about a floating point problem will go to work there.
I expected at the very least some design patterns, some better stuff that come from the "new" standard or literally anything more complicated than this. If I was give a more large code example and get asked to identify potential performance issues, or to find other problems, it would have been better in my opinion.
I agree with your P.S as well ;)
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I think you're right about having to painfully learn those concepts if you've been programming seriously for at most year. Anything JS-specific on the test can be solved with a few Google searches.
Senior positions should require skills in more abstract domains such as scalability and iteration. Code exams don't really quantify things like that. I would be skeptical going anywhere with a company which spends time asking you about floating point!
P.S. Questions about currying & "callbacks"? It's about continuations/futures and function literals these days IMO;)
I couldn't agree more. I don't think anyone who is invited as for a senior developer position and get asked about a floating point problem will go to work there.
I expected at the very least some design patterns, some better stuff that come from the "new" standard or literally anything more complicated than this. If I was give a more large code example and get asked to identify potential performance issues, or to find other problems, it would have been better in my opinion.
I agree with your P.S as well ;)