Also HN: complains about alternative conversation-style interview
I don't work on the front-end, but I have had a general curiosity for it for a while, and I think this would have been a great conversation starter! And I think a lot are missing the point that the interviewer isn't exactly using this to just "fail" people. Like you mentioned, these are the sort of out-of-the-box conversation starters that good interviewers try hard to come up with so they don't have to just give coding tests and ask the top 30 JS trick questions that are easily googleable.
Also HN: complains about alternative conversation-style interview
I don't work on the front-end, but I have had a general curiosity for it for a while, and I think this would have been a great conversation starter! And I think a lot are missing the point that the interviewer isn't exactly using this to just "fail" people. Like you mentioned, these are the sort of out-of-the-box conversation starters that good interviewers try hard to come up with so they don't have to just give coding tests and ask the top 30 JS trick questions that are easily googleable.