[sangnoir]

> I've been to more than one interview where I defaulted to jQuery and was immediately disqualified

Was the role more biased to front end development? Speaking as someone who has been on the other side of the interviewing table, you won't believe the number of people who can use jQuery but are otherwise unfamiliar with vanilla Javascript. I suspect the question itself could have been solved by via plain JS, and you did the equivalent of $('#id') instead of document.getElementByID('id')

[mathgeek]

> Was the role more biased to front end development?

These were Rails positions, which in my experience almost always equates to the same skillset expectations as a front-end engineer.

[SZJX]

That probably depends. If the company is really small then you may end up doing quite some frontend work but there can still be significant backend logic going on in Rails.

[raverbashing]

Oh I'm sure that's not what they mean. 100% sure

While knowing how to use vanilla js is important, nobody uses getElementByID anymore, unless you're doing something very, very simple (or building a library yourself)

[jerkstate]

You sound like the article