Introducing Yourself

This portion of the course will be taught by Emma Bostian, a software engineer who has worked at IBM and now works at LogMeIn.

Interviewing is difficult! #

I’ve had many front-end job interviews. In fact, interviewing is a skill that most people take for granted​, and front-end development interviews are some of the most difficult interviews out there.

They require you to conceptually understand the languages you work with (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), code on-the-spot (eek), leverage sorting and searching algorithms from Computer Science (bubble sort, merge sort, binary search, etc.), and have an understanding of many related technologies and areas such as HTTPS, REST, and Software Development Methodologies like Agile.

There is a pattern though #

In my experience, while interviewing for jobs all over the United States, as well as Germany, this is the general interview process for most companies: