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Closure. There was a question about closures and using one to limit how many times you can call a function. So imagine you had a function that would print out the number 1. Then they wanted to demonstrate the ability of using closures in Javascript, where you limit how many times you can call a function. So if you set the limit to two, then you call the function three times, it would print out 1, 1, undefined.
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Web Engineer

Interviewed at Spotify

4
Apr 6, 2019

Closure. There was a question about closures and using one to limit how many times you can call a function. So imagine you had a function that would print out the number 1. Then they wanted to demonstrate the ability of using closures in Javascript, where you limit how many times you can call a function. So if you set the limit to two, then you call the function three times, it would print out 1, 1, undefined.

During my phone JS interview, I got a lot of general CS questions. The questions were a bit frustrating, because they're things you know you can just Google search and find the one-line answer you need without any actual effort. Things like writing a function to determine if a string is a palindrome or writing a function for the Fibonacci sequence - things that don't have any real use and just exist as stereotypical interview questions.
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Web Developer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Oct 7, 2014

During my phone JS interview, I got a lot of general CS questions. The questions were a bit frustrating, because they're things you know you can just Google search and find the one-line answer you need without any actual effort. Things like writing a function to determine if a string is a palindrome or writing a function for the Fibonacci sequence - things that don't have any real use and just exist as stereotypical interview questions.

It wasn't that the questions were hard so much as how involved the addClass and array flattening questions were given it was for an interview and the expectations were very high for creating a working function of each. JavaScript has a lot of quirky things that make answering these questions harder since there is more that needs to be considered when developing solutions for them.
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Web Developer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Oct 28, 2012

It wasn't that the questions were hard so much as how involved the addClass and array flattening questions were given it was for an interview and the expectations were very high for creating a working function of each. JavaScript has a lot of quirky things that make answering these questions harder since there is more that needs to be considered when developing solutions for them.

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