[diablo1]

> And didn't have any or much experience with old school HTML

A good heuristic for how good a web developer is is getting them to list every HTML element they know, including the deprecated ones like <marquee>. You would be surprised just how little elements they know, and more importantly, the semantic value of the elements. For example, knowing when to use <span> instead of <div>

[bobthepanda]

Is encyclopedic knowledge of something that can be searched online a good heuristic for skill? I thought the community agreed this was not a good thing when it came to fizz-buzz type software interviews.

IMO in frontend world there are two important things: knowing how to search, and knowing how to determine which search results are useful as opposed to some Medium/blogpost fluff piece that is varying degrees of misinformed.

[scarface74]

If you have experience with a framework, you should naturally be able to list things you commonly use.

I was recently at an interview where they just asked me to name a list of CloudFormation functions I’ve used and what did I use them for. If I listed that on my resume as something I knew, it was fair game.

[afarrell]

@bobthepanda

It is not a good heuristic if the person has two days to prepare in that it is very gameable.

It is important to be able to develop things _quickly_ in order to keep a job. For that, knowing how to search is indeed useful. But there are certain things that it is worth keeping in L1 cache.

[bobthepanda]

> But there are certain things that it is worth keeping in L1 cache.

I doubt that the laundry list of things that have gotten tossed out of W3C's HTML standards is one of them, as the grandfather comment implied.