Coalition Frontend Interview

Coalition - Frontend Engineer - Phone Screen

Level: L2
Education: Bachelor of Computer Science
Years of Experience: 4
Questions Asked:

  1. 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
  1. Tell me about a time you went above and beyond your job responsibilities