[at-fates-hands]

You also have to keep in mind a few things:

1 - I've never referred to myself as an "engineer" since I don't see myself as one, nor do I have an engineering degree. This includes the fact I do not have a four year CS degree either.

2 - Front end development has now split. Being a web "designer" means you know HTML5, CSS3 which includes LESS, SASS, PostCSS and other CSS pre-procssors

3 - Being a web "developer" means you're more likely to be a Javscript developer. Meaning you're familiar with Angular, Backbone (I know its soooo 2014 isn't it?), React and other JS frameworks. Every interview I've done in the past two years has almost exclusively focused on JS and how well I know standard JS. Closures, inheritance, debugging, etc. Nobody cares if you know much else other than that.

[Pherdnut]

Where are you interviewing? All I get is Angular and React questions for interviews where I stated up-front to the initial contact that I'm no expert on either and have tended to stay focused on core technology developments when studying on my own time.

[Pherdnut]

There is no excuse for not knowing CSS as a front end/UI developer. That so few know much of anything about it nowadays, or think they don't actually need to is tragic, IMO.