I passed a senior front-end dev challenge without really knowing front-end (part 2)

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:

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:

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.

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