JavaScript × STUMP’D

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott ask each other hiring questions asked of JavaScript developers in job interviews. Kontent by Kentico - Sponsor Kontent by Kentico is a headless CMS that provides live editing experience to non-technical users and hands you the technical tools to build websites, mobile apps, voice assistants, or anything else where you need content. Use REST API or GraphQL and get your content via the global Fastly CDN. Designed to unify all your content and operations, in compliance with ISO27001 and SOC2Type2 certifications.Spin up a new project today and discover Kontent. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes JavaScript Interview Questions 00:13 Let’s get STUMP’d 01:08 Cleaning out the garage 05:05 What are 4 methods available on weakmap? 07:07 How do you make an object iterable in JavaScript? 09:29 How do you make the first letter of a string into uppercase? 10:26 What is the typeof operator? 11:53 What are classes in ES6? 13:21 How do you enumerate key and value pairs of an object? 15:44 Kontent by Kentico 17:08 What is an event queue? 21:05 Why do you need JSON? 24:49 Why do you need a promise? 25:45 Explain the range overflow property 28:21 How do you return all matching strings against a matching expression? 30:14 Sponsor: LogRocket 30:51 What is a thunk function? 33:46 Can you redeclare let or const variables? 34:17 What are enhanced object literals? 35:56 What is the difference between call, apply, and bind? 38:52 Sponsor: Freshbooks 39:57 What are benefits of modules and why would you need them? 43:50 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 48:47 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Who ARTed Podcast Wes: Patio furniture Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.6	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.5	Here's Scott Tolesky and West Boss.
0:11.4	Welcome to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats in the world.
0:16.7	We've got a stumped episode for you.
0:18.8	We realize we haven't done a stumped episode in, I don't know, probably six months.
0:22.8	There's something like that.
0:24.8	And stumped is where we will ask each other random interview questions.
0:31.7	And Scott and I will attempt to answer them and make fools of ourselves.
0:35.1	So this is always a really fun one.
0:36.7	I like this one a lot.
0:38.8	Do we usually keep score on this?
0:40.6	No.
0:41.6	I don't think we do.
0:42.6	I don't think we should keep score.
0:44.6	I don't think we should keep score.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:46.6	I'm pretty competitive person, but yeah, no, I don't need to keep score here, but.
0:50.6	First sponsor today by three awesome companies.
0:53.2	First one is content by Kentico.
0:55.2	They are a headless CMS.
0:56.8	Second one is log rocket JavaScript session replay.
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