[lovich]

To add onto this, this was not an attack or criticism against your methods lloyd-christmas. This was more the fact that I was pointing out that the front end dev world is so fragmented that almost any view point is something you'll come across while interviewing. Your point that this is a simple task to solve without a library is a valid one, but you'd also be as likely to find a team who expects you to default to a library because any non trivial project would require it. The main problem that I think is at the heart of this conversation is that the expectations of what you know and how you work is far too fragmented for most people to keep up with