Hello friends,
I’m at the point where I’ve finished my front-end certificate, and I’ve started applying for front-end developer jobs. One such application recently yielded some feedback, where they told me that I was “pretty green with Javascript”. During the interview, I had a hard time remembering the exact name of the method used to convert a patterned string into an array of numbers. I was thinking of either “slice” or “splice”, but the one I really wanted was “split”. Furthermore, I also needed to do a “parseInt” after the split to make sure that a “2” came before a “10”.
In my defense, the interview was conducted on a site called “collabedit” where there wasn’t an opportunity to write console.log statements or test anything out, or even just run something to make sure that it gave me the output I was expecting in my head.
When I was working on the apps for my front-end certificate, I recall spending the majority of my time on the app requirements, and not focusing much energy on memorizing which array function did this or which string function did that. I figured that it was better to understand the core concepts of how to code and that remembering syntactical things like that were less important. I also spent a lot of time on the “read-search-ask” method of solving problems, which did not exactly imply that I needed to know anything that specific by heart.
I guess what I’m trying to ask is this: should I actually try to memorize the little things within Javascript, or just continue to solve the problems in front of me? Or, do other companies actually care about those minor details during an interview?