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Feedback for Juniors

Over the last two years I've reviewed several applications for junior front-end positions.

Each position has generally gotten about 500+ applications. I think it would be useful to share some general feedback based on the applications I've received thus far. The goal here is honesty, so I hope it doesn't come across as harsh, but instead as a useful perspective from the other side of the hiring table.

🔥 The tech hiring space is a dumpster-fire at the moment. We need to start with the acknowledgment. It is not that you are not good enough, or doing something wrong. The market is over-saturated with junior applicants. According to Offerzen applications rose by 300% in only 12 months.

ESLint rules

The ESM standard is considered stable in NodeJS and well supported by a lot of modern JavaScript tools.

ESLint does a good job validating and fixing ESM code (as long as you don't use top-level await, coming in ESLint v8). Make sure to enable the latest ECMA features in the ESLint config.

.eslint.json

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Guidelines

This section describes some guidelines to follow when writing HTML examples. It's split into two sections:

Formal guidelines cover formal aspects of the example, such as how long it should be.
Content guidelines cover the actual content of the example: that is, what it should include or exclude.

Sometimes formal and content guidelines are at odds. For example, sometimes writing a useful example means making it longer than the formal guidelines ask. Usually, when this happens, we should prioritize content guidelines.

	version: "2.1"
	services:
	web:
	command: ./manage.py runserver_plus 0.0.0.0:8000
	stdin_open: true
	tty: true

	var DOMTokenListSupports = function(tokenList, token) {
	if (!tokenList \|\| !tokenList.supports) {
	return;
	}
	try {
	return tokenList.supports(token);
	} catch (e) {
	if (e instanceof TypeError) {
	console.log("The DOMTokenList doesn't have a supported tokens list");
	} else {

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Feedback for Juniors

ESLint rules

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

Guidelines

Formal guidelines

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