Lester Chan lesterchan

Frontend Technical Interview Prep

EDIT: Well this has been linked now so just an FYI this is still TBD. Feel free to comment if you have suggestions for improvements. Also here is an unrolled Twitter thread of a lot of the tips I talk about on here.

I've been doing frontend for a while now and one thing that really gripes me is the interview. I think the breadth of knowledge of a "Frontend Engineer" has been so poorly defined that people really just expected you to know everything. Many companies have made this a hybrid role. The Web is massive and there are many MANY things to know. Some of these things are just facts that you learn and others are things you really have to understand.

Every time I interview, I go over the same stuff. I wanted to create a gist of the TL;DR things that would jog my memory and hopefully yours too.

Lots of these things are real things I've been asked that caught me off guard. It's nice to have something you ca

Prefix	Description	Notes
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acct_	Account ID	Identifier for an Account object.
aliacc_	Alipay Account ID	Identifier for an Alipay account.
ba_	Bank Account ID	Identifier for a Bank Account object.
btok_	Bank Token ID	Identifier for a Bank Token object.
card_	Card ID	Identifier for a Card object.
cbtxn_	Customer Balance Transaction ID	Identifier for a Customer Balance Transaction object.
ch_	Charge ID	Identifier for a Charge object.
cn_	Credit Note ID	Identifier for a Credit Note object.

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