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by faizshah 1731 days ago
What are you trying to measure by asking a low level question about say addEventListener? The people who give the best answer will be the people who most recently used that low level api and are good at sharing their knowledge about it. A better way to measure that would be to ask them to tell a story about something then if they mention say debugging an Event Listener then such a question is fair game to understand how they deep dive a topic.

An FEEs job is 90% combine components from the design system with apis from the backend team to implement a UX from the design team (and obviously debugging, deploying, etc.). For this I only care that you know what an Event Listener is or what Flexbox is or what the Box model is I don’t really care whether you know some of the low level details off hand (unless you reference it in a story).