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Web developer interviews are heavy in technical questions. Expect questions that will test your understanding of relevant programming languages such JavaScript and CSS, general web functions, and design experience with web services like REST and SOAP. As a designer, you will likely be asked to show examples of past projects or websites.

Top Web Developer Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Can you describe the most popular programming languages and web services?

How to answer
How to answer: You can be almost certain an interviewer will ask you about programming languages and web services during your interview. Be sure you're familiar with the latest languages and services, including recent updates or innovations.
Question 2

Question #2: How would project managers and fellow web developers you've worked with describe you?

How to answer
How to answer: Employers want to make sure you're a good fit for their web development team. If asked this question, emphasize your teamwork skills. You can discuss your communication abilities, listening skills, and ability to resolve conflict.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you work your way out of coding problems?

How to answer
How to answer: An employer wants to make sure you can work your way through any coding problems so you can be a productive member of their staff. Talk about your problem-solving skills related to both coding and the workplace to prove your ability to work through issues on the job. You can explain your analytical skills, talk about past collaborations, and explain your experience with solving problems on previous projects.

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Given a interaction where hovering a link displays a tooltip of dynamic information (e.g.- Ajax), write the basic functions to perform the lookup (yes, jQuery is allowed) and explain how you'd cache the results so an HTTP request wasn't made if the tooltip already existed.
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Web Developer

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8★
Nov 5, 2014

Given a interaction where hovering a link displays a tooltip of dynamic information (e.g.- Ajax), write the basic functions to perform the lookup (yes, jQuery is allowed) and explain how you'd cache the results so an HTTP request wasn't made if the tooltip already existed.

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.
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Front End Web Developer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★
Aug 15, 2014

Asked me to write a throttle function in javascript. Well, essentially...he wanted me to write a function that would call another function, but not if it had been called within a certain set time, which is essentially what a throttle function is. I completely flailed, but it's a useful function to have...probably why they put it in the underscore library which is what I based this answer on.

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