Hi again! I wanted to update you on this process and share the good news: I passed the take-home challenge! After the challenge I had a technical interview where I got questions about a range of different topics, and two about my code. The first one was "why did i use storybook for?" and "why did i make the app in vue if my 'expertice' was react". After answering those, the topics i was asked about were all over the place but front-end related, such as: - Internationalization - Accesibility - CSS - Micro front end architecture - Design patterns - JavaScript - PWA - Tools i've used - SEO None of the questions were too deep but still filtered wether i knew what i was talking about or not. They got me on a lot of questions but every time i failed they explained what a good answer would have been. After their interview was over i asked them a few questions that i always do, as it serves two purposes: 1. i make them speak about themselves, and most people like that 2. It gives me an insight of how the company operates The questions i did this time were: - what is it that keeps you working here? - can you tell me about a time that you made a serious mistake, how did you fix it and how did the company react. (this one got people laughing at how they deleted a production database) - How do you feel about me with this interview? The answer to the last question was that i knew enough and that there was no reason not to learn on the job what i didn't know. And after a cople of days, I got the news that i passed the technical interview and now i had to do the cultural fit interview (which was yesterday). So yeah, i feel pretty awesome passing senior grade interviews with just months of experience in the front end. I still have a low chance of getting in (10% maybe) due to the high number of applicants they have, but let's hope for the best. Have a great day everyone! PS: if you want me to write about the cultural interview let me know.

Yesterday at work, I found myself in a situation where I had to write a part of the code in two different ways Option 1 ``` const items = ['item1', 'item3'] const searchedItem = 'item'; const searchedItemExist = items.some((item) => searchItem === item); if (!searchedItemExist) { // do some processing } ``` Option 2 ``` const items = ['item1', 'item3'] const searchedItem = 'item'; const isSearchItemNew = !items.some((item) => searchItem === item); if (searchedItemExist) { // do some processing } ``` and since I'm writing code for my colleagues to read && review, I decided to ask them which one they prefer, and everyone chooses the first option, for me when the If statement is not for early returns, I generally prefer the condition to be a positive condition (a condition without the not `!` operator), that's why my preference in this case was option 2, but the problem with this option is the `!` before doing the search of the item (!items.some((item) => searchItem === item)) which can be easier to miss. I want to share this with you and I would love to know what your opinions are on this

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