The Frontend Lab

A round-by-round breakdown of my Linear interview — outcome: offer.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Figma interview — outcome: offer.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Atlassian interview — outcome: withdrew.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Shopify interview — outcome: offer.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Netflix interview — outcome: rejected.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Airbnb interview — outcome: offer.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Meta interview — outcome: pending.

A round-by-round breakdown of my Google interview — outcome: offer.

A focused, practical walkthrough of fetch, cache, and revalidate.

A focused, practical walkthrough of css animations & transitions.

A focused, practical walkthrough of building a custom react hook.

A focused, practical walkthrough of typescript generics from scratch.

A focused, practical walkthrough of intro to web accessibility.

A focused, practical walkthrough of state management without a library.

A focused, practical walkthrough of understanding the js event loop.

A focused, practical walkthrough of build a debounced search input.

The Performance questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The a11y questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The JavaScript questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The DSA questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The Web questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The System Design questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The TypeScript questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

The CSS questions that come up in real frontend loops, with crisp answers.

Performance budgets that actually stick — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

Accessibility wins you can ship today — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

From REST to typed APIs: what changed for our team — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

Writing components that are easy to delete — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

Why I stopped using useEffect for data fetching — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

The mental model that finally made TypeScript generics click — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

CSS Grid patterns I reach for every week — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.

How the event loop really schedules your code — lessons learned the hard way, distilled into something you can use today.