Coalition - Frontend Engineer - Phone Screen
Level: L2
Education: Bachelor of Computer Science
Years of Experience: 4
Questions Asked:
- Task: Implement a basic Hacker News–style application
- Details:
- Fetch news items from a provided API
- Render a list of stories
- Display metadata such as title, author, score, time, and comments count
- Allow viewing basic story details
- Focus areas: API integration, component structure, state management, rendering performance, and clean UI logic
- Behavioral question
- Tell me about a time you went above and beyond your job responsibilities