Well this happen to me before.

I applied as a backend developer to some company, and during the interview they had me whiteboarding CSS and raw HMTL, and some JS. They seriously asked me to write a <select> tag with several choices and a default option on the board (who still writes these by hand?), and some selectors of varying complexity.

For the JS questions, I didn’t know their framework (Vue); I told them and wrote it in Angular instead. I also showed them some of my work in Angular (a large commercial project), as I thought ahead and brought my lappy with me.

Ultimately they were upset that I didn’t remember the markup for select/option off the top of my “pretty little head,” and couldn’t implement their crap in Vue despite not knowing it. “The frameworks all similar” they said. “Just write in Vue. It is not different,” they said. Ugh.

So glad I didn’t get the job. I was getting kinda desperate for work, and I would have been the only female employee there (save the ditzy receptionist), let alone dev. It reeked of man cave in there, and the interviewers (my would-be bosses) kept hitting on me.

I’m soo glad I didn’t remember the syntax for <option>. Because yuck that would have been a horrible mess.

I think that writing code on anything that is not a computer and without any actual purpose doesn’t make any sense.

Once I was asked to make a web page during an interview and I refused to do it without the possibility of referencing the internet. When I was asked why I replied that my skill is understanding what to do, not knowing it all by heart and if somebody without knowledge was given the same references in the same time, he would not do anything.

Because it is not knowing things by heart that makes actual competence.

(And I got the job, that soon turned out to be horrible and unrelated to the interview…)

@Root If they think Angular and Vue are similar, I would've asked them to write a JSON API endpoint in Haskell's Yesod because it's essentially the same as Laravel or Rails.

@Root And possibly to go suck each other's cocks, because that's essentially the same as trying to get a prospective new female employee to do it. 🤷

Fortunately or unfortunately, I never evaluated any Frontend Developer on HTML/CSS. I've become a Backend-only person

However, JS is easy to evaluate as I could apply my regular Backend knowledge to think and come up with something. And that too Plain JS