[mohsen1]

Oh man, making a 7-segment display was my favorite question to ask frontend developers. Eventually turning it into a real clock if they were fast enough. Captures lots of basic CSS positioning, JS timers behavior and general ideas like breaking things into components etc

[bsammon]

I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.

[Retr0id]

I'm choosing to imagine a bomb-defusal movie scene, where the protagonist must correct the layout of the countdown timer to save the day.

[bsammon]

I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY

[gedy]

Man where were you at when I was getting asked questions "to see if you've prepared for the interview" with leet code for damned UI frontend positions... I loved answering your type of questions and most companies would not do this for some reason.

[mohsen1]

I hate leetcode type questions. It's like "math Olympia" questions I had to deal with as a kid. Either you have seen the problem (or a variation of it) or there is no way of coming up with a solution under pressure.