👨‍⚕️ About

Like most people, I started "writing" JavaScript by first learning how to use JQuery and copy-pasting plugin code that other people much smarter than me wrote.

It was back in late 2015 when I began going on job interviews that I realized that I did not know as much JavaScript as I thought I did. Here I was thinking I had 2 years of solid professional work experience writing JavaScript for various different companies and clients, and out of the blue, I bomb a dozen job interviews.

However, I did not give up, I persisted, I studied whatever material I could find online, and I kept going to job interviews until I was able to finally secure a job.

The problem was, I thought to myself, "I thought Software Developers were in high demand, then why is it so goddamn hard to land a job in this field?!? Also, what is going on with all these weird JavaScript questions I get in these technical interviews, I never heard of prototypical inheritance or ES6 symbols".

From this experience, I became anxious of job interviews. I became scared of not losing my current job that I tried so hard to obtain. Most of all I lost confidence in my ability as a Developer. This is what you might call Impostor Syndrome.

After landing my first job right out of school, I became obsessed with how to do well in technical JavaScript interviews. I would read every blog post I could find, watch every YouTube video, and learn as much as I could to acing technical interviews in order to feel a sense of job security.

But, there was no one central resource that I could rely on. This is why I created hackingthejsinterview.com, I want to share my experience with you all. All those failed job interviews I endured over the years, all those moments where I walked out of an interview thinking I was worthless, and all those times when I doubted my abilities as a Developer simply because I couldn't answer some stupid trivia questions.

I want to make sure that anyone who wants to get a job as a JavaScript, Frontend, or Full-Stack Developer can walk into any interview with confidence and walk out with even more confidence because they know they just crushed the interview.