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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott ask each other hiring questions asked of JavaScript developers in job interviews.
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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?
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