Frontend Engineer Interview Experiences & Questions
8 real Frontend Engineer interviews from 7 companies: what each round covers, the exact questions, and who got the offer.
What to expect · Frontend Engineer
Based on 8 real interviews
Frontend Engineer interviews by company
The Frontend Engineer interview process
Most common round types: Coding (5), Project Discussion (3), Technical (3), Behavioral (2), System Design (1), Data Structures & Algorithms (1).
Real Frontend Engineer interview questions
- What are React Portals?
- Walk me through your resume.
- Live coding a generic async promise React hook. Generic types and useEffect cleanup function expected
- Can you give me an intro, talk through your last role, and tell me what you're looking for in general?
- System Deisgn HLD - Design tagging application
- Here’s a small React web app. Figure out why the text highlighting isn’t doing what we want, then design and implement a fix.
- Imagine you're an engineer working on our audio transcription studio for teams dubbing content from one language into another. Walk us through feature ideas, how you'd prioritize them, and how you'd turn that into a…
- Tell me about yourself.
- [Since it's in my work experience.] What is virtualization?
- Tell me about a time when you needed to convince a disagreeing team.
- build a calculator web app like the one in macOS
- Behavioural Questions
- Front End System Design - Cart page and Checkout Page
- DSA - Graph question needs to be done using BFS.
- Tell me about your design process.
- 1 React question on timer
- Why do we use React and not Angular or Vue.js?
- Background discussion
- Write a function which gives nested values of an object.
- What is a high-order component?
- React + leetcode medium difficulty questions. Overall 4 questions to be answered in 90mins.
- Next.js App - Sorting and improving performance
- How do we handle it when 2 APIs are called at the same time?
- Livecoding to real life problem.
- Explain React Fibre and MVC Architecture.
- How to handle data when API gives 3000 data at once.
- What's the difference between Context API and Redux?
- What is State Management?
- Optimisation, Custom hooks and concurrent rendering and how to render component dynamically
- What are the new hooks introduced in React 18?
- What are the difference between the other versions of react?
Latest Frontend Engineer interview experiences
“this was mostly about understanding your process and how u act in different situations and how well do u understand things”
“So far the process looks great. They send you a technical assessment to do that takes 90mins. Then a recruiter screen to share more about your background and what interests you about elevenlabs.…”
“Technical being able to use Generic types and useEffect cleanup in a live coding environment without any references”
“interviewer wasn't trying to get the perfect solution, but directed me to cover the most important bits by asking the right questions such as how to handle negative numbers”
“Discussions about frontend fundamentals and my work experience went well. I was supposed to code the solution within 10 minutes after I had thought through the approach, but I took longer because I…”
“Interviews are conducted well, the first coding round is only the elimination round. The position was filled while I was being interviewed and my application did not move forward even though I did…”
“I was refer to this job by my friend. After my profile got shortlisted I got my interview schedule immediately. And got the interview feedback within a day. All this process took around 2-3 days.”
“I thought they meant a technical decomposition interview, and then I got there and they were like, oh no, we’re actually talking about product. I was basically ad libbing for 45 minutes, trying to…”
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds are in the Frontend Engineer interview?
Candidates report a typical 2.5 rounds, usually including a recruiter screen, online assessment, phone screen, technical round.
How hard is the Frontend Engineer interview?
Candidates rate it 3.1/5 on average (medium), across 8 interviews.
How long does the Frontend Engineer hiring process take?
About 2 weeks from first contact to decision, based on reported timelines.
What percentage of Frontend Engineer candidates get an offer?
0% of candidates with a final result got an offer (0 of 5).
What does the Frontend Engineer interview focus on?
The most common round types are Coding, Project Discussion, Technical, Behavioral.