My Interview Experience & Questions Faced (Frontend + JavaScript + SQL)

Source: Dev.to

Interview Overview

Yesterday I attended an interview for a Fresher React Developer role. It was a great learning experience that covered JavaScript, CSS, SQL, and web fundamentals. I was also given a task to clone a webpage using only HTML and CSS.

Questions Faced

JavaScript

• Given [2,3,1,4] — Find the sum of the array?
• Remove duplicates from an array?
• Split the string "Hello"?
• Difference between == and === in JavaScript?

CSS

• What is inline vs inline‑block in CSS?

SQL

• SQL query to find salary between 50,000 and 80,000?
• SQL query to split salary category above or below 60,000?
• Find the second highest salary in SQL?
• Find employee name and department with highest salary?

Frontend Task

Clone a webpage UI using HTML and CSS only, ensuring a clean layout.

Takeaways

• Confidence matters even if you don’t answer everything perfectly.
• Logic questions in JavaScript require knowledge of array methods and string handling.
• CSS layout concepts are important for UI cloning tasks.
• This interview helped me understand where I need to improve.