Answers of Front-end Job Interview Coding Questions

Try to answer the front-end job interview coding questions. The original questions could be found in the link below.

Coding Questions

Questions

Question: What is the value of foo?

var foo = 10 + '20';

Question: What will be the output of the code below?

console.log(0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3);

Question: How would you make this work?

add(2, 5); // 7
add(2)(5); // 7

Question: What value is returned from the following statement?

"i'm a lasagna hog".split("").reverse().join("");

Question: What is the value of window.foo?

( window.foo || ( window.foo = "bar" ) );

Question: What is the outcome of the two alerts below?

var foo = "Hello";
(function() {
  var bar = " World";
  alert(foo + bar);
})();
alert(foo + bar);

Question: What is the value of foo.length?

var foo = [];
foo.push(1);
foo.push(2);

Question: What is the value of foo.x?

var foo = {n: 1};
var bar = foo;
foo.x = foo = {n: 2};

Question: What does the following code print?

console.log('one');
setTimeout(function() {
  console.log('two');
}, 0);
Promise.resolve().then(function() {
  console.log('three');
})
console.log('four');

Question: What is the difference between these four promises?

doSomething().then(function () {
  return doSomethingElse();
});

doSomething().then(function () {
  doSomethingElse();
});

doSomething().then(doSomethingElse());

doSomething().then(doSomethingElse);

Question: What will the code below output to the console and why?

(function(){
  var a = b = 3;
})();

console.log("a defined? " + (typeof a !== 'undefined'));
console.log("b defined? " + (typeof b !== 'undefined'));

Question: Consider the two functions below. Will they both return the same thing? Why or why not?

function foo1()
{
  return {
      bar: "hello"
  };
}

function foo2()
{
  return
  {
      bar: "hello"
  };
}

Answers

Question: What is the value of foo?

var foo = 10 + '20';
//foo would be '1020'

Question: What will be the output of the code below?

console.log(0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3);
// false
// because of the float inaccuracy.

Question: How would you make this work?

add(2, 5); // 7
add(2)(5); // 7

Question: What value is returned from the following statement?

"i'm a lasagna hog".split("").reverse().join("");
// After split("") ["i","'","m"," ","a"," ","l","a","s","a","g","n","a"," ","h","o","g"]
// After reverse() ['g', 'o', 'h', ' ', 'a', 'n', 'g', 'a', 's', 'a', 'l', ' ', 'a', ' ', 'm', "'", 'i']
// After join("") "goh angasal a m'i"
// The effect of three steps equal to reverse a string.

Question: What is the value of window.foo?

( window.foo || ( window.foo = "bar" ) );
// window.foo == "bar"

Question: What is the outcome of the two alerts below?

var foo = "Hello";
(function() {
  var bar = " World";
  alert(foo + bar);
})();
alert(foo + bar);

Question: What is the value of foo.length?

var foo = [];
foo.push(1);
foo.push(2);
// foo == [1,2]
// foo.length == 2

Question: What is the value of foo.x?

var foo = {n: 1};
var bar = foo;
foo.x = foo = {n: 2};

Question: What does the following code print?

console.log('one');
setTimeout(function() {
  console.log('two');
}, 0);
Promise.resolve().then(function() {
  console.log('three');
})
console.log('four');

// one
// three
// four
// two

Question: What is the difference between these four promises?

doSomething().then(function () {
  return doSomethingElse();
});

doSomething().then(function () {
  doSomethingElse();
});

doSomething().then(doSomethingElse());

doSomething().then(doSomethingElse);

Question: What will the code below output to the console and why?

(function(){
  var a = b = 3;
})();

console.log("a defined? " + (typeof a !== 'undefined'));
console.log("b defined? " + (typeof b !== 'undefined'));

Question: Consider the two functions below. Will they both return the same thing? Why or why not?

function foo1()
{
  return {
      bar: "hello"
  };
}

function foo2()
{
  return
  {
      bar: "hello"
  };
}