Tips for a first live coding interview
Tips for a first live coding interview
I'll have a live coding interview on Thursday but it's the first time that I'll have this kind of interview. The job offer is about node and nest js. I have 1.5 years of experience with Nodejs but no experience at all which NestJS. Any tips you can give me?
If they know you don't know NestJS, then they're probably not going to be looking to test your knowledge of NestJS. Ideally, the live coding test is designed to go beyond testing your knowledge. If you look at Bloom's Taxonomy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Bloom's_Revised_Taxonomy.jpg/800px-Bloom's_Revised_Taxonomy.jpg you can see that knowledge is the base, what they will want to see is closer to the top of the pyramid.
I was thinking they would test my ability to adapt to technologies and expect me to look at the documentation to create a small app
I was thinking that they wouldn't do that as reading docs and such take time. Time better spent getting to know you and selling themselves.
If you're feeling the imposter syndrome a bit, go and build and app to help yourself help. However, you say you're nodejs rather than nestjs. How's your front end in general?
I would say go over your resume and the fundamentals. Typically for Node devs focusing on callbacks, promises, async/await, event loop, procedural/functional programming and making sure you're solid on those is good. A little more would be API design. If you're going through a recruiter sometimes you could ask for an agenda of the interview process so you can better prepare?
Did they say what the live coding will be on? I.e is it a frontend test, or algorithms test, etc.?
No. I predict it's going to be the create a small Nestjs app
Alright, you can probably try and make a basic NestJS app as an exercise. Just so you won't get caught off-guard. Good luck!
