Frontend Engineering

⏱ 2 min read Core Web Vitals are Google’s metrics for “how good does this site feel?” — and Google uses them in search […] Read article

⏱ 3 min read “Walk me through how you would design a design system from scratch” is a standard frontend system design question for Read article

⏱ 4 min read Vercel hires more senior frontend engineers than nearly any other company in 2026. The product surface (the deployment platform, the Read article

⏱ 4 min read Linear is one of the more selective frontend hires in 2026. The company has built a reputation for craft — Read article

⏱ 3 min read Notion’s frontend engineering hires sit in a particular niche: the block-based editor, the database views, the multi-platform consistency between web Read article

⏱ 4 min read Figma’s frontend interview is one of the deepest in the industry. The product surface — a real-time collaborative design editor Read article

⏱ 6 min read JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals get tested in frontend interviews in ways generalist SWE interviews skip. Closures, prototypal inheritance, the event Read article

⏱ 4 min read The chat UI machine-coding round tests whether the candidate can build a real-time-feeling messaging interface from scratch. The exercise covers Read article

⏱ 4 min read The image carousel machine-coding round is one of the more deceptive frontend interview tests. Surface-simple — show images, navigate between Read article

⏱ 5 min read Notion’s block-based editor is the second most-asked frontend system design question after Figma’s collaborative editor. The problem — design a Read article

⏱ 5 min read Performance interviews at senior+ frontend roles increasingly center on Core Web Vitals — Google’s set of three metrics that quantify Read article

⏱ 5 min read Figma’s collaborative editor is the canonical frontend system design problem of the 2020s. The question — design a multi-user editor Read article

⏱ 5 min read CSS architecture is the dimension senior frontend interviewers test for that generalist SWE preparation completely misses. The questions are not Read article

⏱ 6 min read Accessibility (a11y) has gone from optional polish to a core dimension of senior frontend interviews. Companies that ship accessible products Read article

⏱ 5 min read Infinite scroll is one of the most common machine-coding rounds at frontend interviews. The candidate has 45-60 minutes to build Read article