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by Hermitian909 1662 days ago
One option is to choose companies that let you learn on the job and stress fundamentals, usually larger companies in SV. I've been in quite a few front end interviews where all questions involved only questions about native methods, CSS, and general browser knowledge.

In terms of becoming skillful enough to pass interviews testing stack specific knowledge I've seen two strategies be broadly successful:

1. Take 1-2 months full time to work on a serious project in the stack. 2. Spend 1-2 years just being in the ecosystem and absorbing the collective groupthink, doing a few tutorials and occasionally hacking together small projects. A couple hours of your time per week throughout the process.