This is great! Props to Eli for pushing past the nervousness and settling in, it must've been extra hard for him knowing it was going to be recorded and uploaded to YT. I would LOVE more of these! I'd also love to volunteer to do a mock interview with you (me as the interviewee), if you'd like. I might not be quite at the point I'd need to be YET but I'd still love to do it!

Eli, if you're reading this I just wanna give you props for doing this. It might not seem like it but this is an extremely important experience to undertake in your journey. You have no idea how much you'll learn by going through this kind of pressure. Well done man, keep it up!

I love how real this is. I've had extreme imposter syndrome since the beginning of my coding journey and seeing this interview made me feel more comfortable as I learn to get better at interviews. Thanks Nader and Eli for being brave to do this live!

Oh my gosh I did it. The second challenge. It's not elegant, no. I'm absolutely certain there's a better, cleaner way to do it. But I did it. Maybe not a big deal to most, but I'm not working as a dev yet, still learning, so for me this is huge. Screw it, I'm taking this win.

This is so much better than "Google SWeng mock interviews former Meta PM". It's relatable, lift you up to keep going on, it's more engaging to watch and think "I know this one! Say this Eli!", it doesn't end the video making me feel shit. Kudos to Eli!

as someone who graduated I can see say its awesome to see an interview like this, sometimes you know the answer but you havent organised your thoughts properly and its good to see that this is normal and can happen

Eli looked like a gamer turned coder to figure out how the games are made, it was fun to watch both of you. He totally nailed it and you helped him build his confidence which he needed at that time. Great!

This is massive for me, seeing an interview like this gives me confidence about going into an interview. Eli thank you for putting yourself in this position for someone like me on a similar journey, its super helpful getting insight like this. I am not naive though, I have seen many bad interviewers in my time.

man nader seems like such a wholesome guy to work with, props to the guy being interviewd working through all the stress

Eli, I don't normally comment on these sorts of things but I feel like I just went on a journey with you. You did an INCREDIBLE job. I've been coding in JS for 3 years now, working professionally for 14 months, and I found that last problem really challenging. Really well done! What made your interview so much fun to watch was that it was EXACTLY the same process that I go through every day. The confusion, the pain and finally the clarity. Nader, you were really supportive. You did such a good job. First I've seen of this channel and I've just subscribed. Thanks a bunch guys!

Watched this today as I wrote a fairly complex recursive script at work. Even after years in the industry I still get nervous at job interviews. It was great watching Eli slowly break through his nervousness and give it everything he's got, props to him. I'd love to see more of these in different levels with different people, I like your calm and friendly approach as an interviewer and wish you and your channel good luck. Subscribed!

Eli, you have my utmost respect for this. Even though you know it is technically not a real interview, you put forth your best effort and explained your process in an incredibly easy to understand way. I'm also 29 and moving into the web development side of things.

Oh my gosh the beginning of this interview is me anytime I get asked anything. So much information comes to mind that you dont know where to start and Eli squirming in his seat and eye rolling at himself for incomplete answers at first. Super good for me to watch as I am approaching the start of looking for a job and I want interviews so I can get comfortable. Its soooooo incredibly terrifying walking into a situation that you have no idea how it will be approached. Thank you very much for the content.

As a 33 year old prospective dev trying to teach myself after moving to new country (lots of life changes), this was a big confidence booster. If you ever feel like doing another one with someone, I'm game. 😅

"The error is right there, its right there!" -Nader. These mock interviews are crucial! I wish I would have done them! Instead I 'wasted' real interviews. You'll undoubtedly find your groove Eli. Everyone was at this point at one time or the other. Watching this gave me flashbacks and I got nervous just watching! You'll get used to it and you'll look back at this and laugh! All the best to you Eli!

Shout out to Eli for putting himself out there like this. I could feel the emotions with him as I tried to answer the questions along with him. Nader is right, you think you know something until you have to explain it by definition. Will definitely be trying some mock interviews when I am ready to understand how ready I truly am LOL. Once again, props Eli 👊

I had to take time to comment that this was such a great learning experience you created here. It helped me realize I'm not as clueless as I thought I was.

Thank you for the raw unedited interview version. We need more such videos. I am on the same boat as well (not good with technical interviews as of today) and looking to improve.

Proud of Eli for agreeing to upload the video. It's so raw and real that a lot of us beginners can relate to ourselves. I am still stuck with Javascript. 😭

Parsing text can be a hard concept to wrap your head around in the beginning. Plus there's many ways to tackle it. State machines, Regex etc so great job Eli!

It was thrilling to watch through this entire mock interview! Huge kudos to Eli for racking up to courage to do and his ability to solve problems is very respectable. I am on the same journey as he is just learning as much as I can to become a full-stack developer and I believe an excercise like this would do me really well. So I hope I could a chance to be featured on your channel.

Thank you so much for making this video, Nader & Eli! You’ve really opened the mind of this soon to start, self taught web developer!

the interviewer and interviewee both were amazing,

I wish you did more of these videos, they’re so freaking helpful

This was an amazing video to sit down and watch being a beginner learner into coding myself. Watching this whole video gave me a lot tips on how to tackle problems and how to go through it step by step to get a better understanding of the question given. By questioning/answering edge cases and giving examples of what you want the program to actually run/spit out. I, myself, never really went through this process and just went straight into the coding aspect and try work my way through that which made it really hard on me, decreasing my confidence. I give huge props to Eli because he came into this mock interview not prepared at all. You can tell Eli was nervous by the way he laughs and how he moving around a lot and wasn't really still at first. But after seeing you giving him the guidance and patiently talking to him through the process, Eli became more a lot confident and was able to work solving the code faster by understanding it. The first coding problem was was done beautifully and I was able to understand it every step of the way. But the second coding question became a lot hard to follow due to the second if statement and understanding where to put each variable within the various brackets. My brain would always explode when I see more than 20 lines of code and would constantly have to run myself through the code repeatedly to understand it again. Also, I really enjoyed on how Nader kept a calm/cheerful mood when talking to Eli even after seeing his nervousness when working through the problems by giving him reassurance on how he can approach things whenever Eli was stuck. I feel like I, myself, would have a better understanding If I had someone I can talk to and ask a lot of questions if I ever get stuck on how to approach things or ask how certain code works.

As someone who has recently started coding, I have massive respect for Eli for being part of a mock interview knowing it'll be on KZfaq! This video was so helpful and I actually listen to it frequently whilst I study JavaScript.

I appreciate this so much! Thanks Eli for your vulnerability. I hope this opens more doors for you. 😊

I stumbled across that video and as a learner that's so great! And I was surprised that after 2 months in my learning journey I actually have been able to answer to all questions + make the string coding question n°1! I subscribed, keep going!

thanks for this video . A quick solution for the question - 39:34 String Coding Question 2 (Hard)- function closeDivTags(inputString) { // Use a regular expression to find all opening tags const regex = //g; // Use a counter to keep track of the number of opening tags encountered let divCount = 0; // Replace each opening tag with a closing tag const formattedString = inputString.replace(regex, () => { divCount++; if (divCount % 2 === 0) { return ""; } else { return ""; } }); return formattedString; } const inputString = "this is a here and here is a div this one and another "; const formattedString = closeDivTags(inputString); console.log(formattedString);

That was such a pleasure to watch. Great job, both of you!

Love this content. Gives us aspiring developers an idea of what to expect in a real interview!

it was a lot of fun watching this. Especially fun to pause the video, work out the problem and then come back and see someone else's solution

this is so authentic, props for the courage to do it in front of a camera!

My hands are getting clammy watching this!! Great raw video !

Managed to do all the coding challenges and answer all the questions successfully by myself before hearing the answer, this is giving me confidence thank you.

Yoo Nader, Firstly, I love the content and this one especially! Eli, Thank you so much for the being open and transparent! this was Great! Thanks again guys

Ok. Finally an entry level JS interview that asks ENTRY LEVEL QUESTIONS!

Fantastic Interview from Nader and Eli. Best of luck to you both!

This was very informative to watch as a Senior Info Systems student. While watching I paused at the problems and tried to figure them out myself without using Google and did pretty well. Of course it is harder for Eli as he isn't directly writing the code himself which makes it hard on top of the pressure of having someone watch you possibly make errors and evaluate you. Great video overall!

Man this was a great interview!!! I’ve been looking for entry level JavaScript interview and yours by far is the best one ! It’s so relatable! Dude I would love for you to interview me as well ! I’m in a coding bootcamp right now and I be feeling exactly like Eli working through problems. Ayee keep it up Nadar !

Tried a different approach for Question 2. Hope it helps. 😊 function FixHTMLString(inputString) { const splitString = inputString.split(""); let fixedString = splitString[0]; for (let i = 1; i < splitString.length; i++) { if (i % 2 === 1) fixedString += "" + splitString[i]; else fixedString += "" + splitString[i]; } return fixedString; }

I am only starting to code, this interview made me feel better about the whole thing, i could answer most of the questions. I am learning bits of js and python at the same time to see what fits for me and how other programmes compliment or dont the coding language. I am 48 and learning new things i never knew existed, i am starting computer science course in september and i want to know the basics of coding before i start the course. Its extremely hard learning with i life issues which try to curve ball me all of the time. Thanks for the video

Man I've been there. Having been coding for a long time, I know how nervous I have felt during a technical interview. Good for you.

Interview nervousness is real. I applied for intern position. There was a screening where they gave us two questions online which we took on our own time before a given deadline. I could not answer any of them during the 1 hour time. Right after the session ended, about 5 minutes, I reflected that the questions weren't hard. I tried calming down, and tried to solve the first question on my own (I took screenshots of the questions). I did the first question in about 15 minutes. Then, I moved on to the second question. It took me about 20 minutes. If I had been calm and not feel the pressure, I probably would've been able to take time to understand and finish the first question in 25 minutes and 30 minutes for the second one leaving 5 minutes extra time to quickly check things over.

Wow! Congrats Eli. I was able to relate to your experience while watching this video. You're amazing! And thank you Nader for this kind of content. It will surely help me in my future interviews. God bless and again amazing job.

Extremely fascinating and actually enjoyable as it's such a raw interview. I'm exactly the same with being asked questions on the spot my brain just totally freeze's 😂After losing all my tools and gear in a fire, I have also decided to take the leap into the programming world and watching Eli's experience definitely has given a boost in confidence and assurance.

When I started watching an hour ago I subscribed and I was the 994 subscriber. Now I haven't even finished this video and you have aprox 1010 subscribers. Congrats! :)

"What is an array" and literally I tried answering and thought "a data structure to contain information in an indexed..." and then did what he did LMAO. Those super basic questions drive me crazy like "What is an object?" "Well, its a data structure for containing key value pairs..." dont know what else to say really except memorizing a canned response.

This is good. I like the honesty. I'd bet money it'll help Eli in the long run. I'm still at the entry/jr level, it's funny how the simplest question feels like a mountain when you're in that hot seat...

Props for the guy doing it. The only piece of advice I would give is to be patient with yourself. If you don't know something...it's truly ok to say hey I don't know that specifically...but here's what I do know...and how I can use that to figure it out. Where a lot of people fail in interviews...is they try to sell skills they don't have and comes off as a salesperson rather than a subject matter student.

im doing now 10 months f full stack developer and now we are on JavaScript, I feel like a complete idiot, but that is alright. And this video even I couldnt follow it was nice to see the thinking process on how take you problems on. I'm very gratefull for this. Greetings from Belgium

This is what I needed to see this gives me a peace of mind

This is a good example of when hiring a junior developer for half the cost can actually cost you more in the long run. The 1st question took 20 mins of coding/debugging. When you reach a truly advanced level, the question can be answered in 20 seconds. const camelLetters = (string) => { return [...string].map((v,i) => i%2 ? v.toLowerCase() : v.toUpperCase()).join(''); } So a professional dev might cost 10x more but it'll take them 60x less to do a better job. Good video!

This was a great video on Technical interviews, it gives you insight into what it feels like to handle the pressure of a Tech interview. Good stuff.

This is real, and awesome. Eli did great!

I just love this🔥. I was also going through the frustration that Eli's was going through. But its hard when u r in front of someone watching u solving the problem. ❤

I love it. Great job Eli. I learned a lot, because every person have their logic to solve the problem. The missing closing div tag question gets complicated if we care about HTML semantics lol

I’m currently learning how to code as l want to switch careers and seeing this type of content is great. It’s amazing to see the thought process of how you go through the problems trying to solve them. Please try and make this type of content in the future as I would love to see more interviews. I think they provide a lot of insights and are a great learning opportunity . Thank you. Subbed 👍

First time I’ve seen this channel. Very cool! Great job Nader and Eli! I’m 4 weeks into Python/css/html/java script and yeah the interviews are intense.

i am a Computer Science at my junior year, this is a very good insight . Thank you

Keep going, you will improve over time. Also huge respect to make this public interview as a beginner.

I have an interview, for a job that requires I know basic JS. I haven’t done a technical interview in over 14 years. As someone who has taken a few JS courses and played around with it, this will be my first coding interview. This was definitely helpful.

Being a senior developer, it's refreshing to revel upon those questions. Thank you Nader!

I'm looking for a job in this domain as well and I think I never was more into a video. I enjoyed the entirety, even paused it to try to solve it myself. I was concentrated for the full one hour and a half. Great video. Props to Eli.

I really appreciated this video, definitely helped with my expectations and assessing where I am at. I came across it accidentally but it was very very helpful! Subbed :).

Thanks guy and super props to Eli for doing this. I’d be too nervous to even think in this scenario and it was very refreshing to watch Eli’s thinking process in solving the challenges. Loved it!

I like how the interviewer is supportive

I'm 31 and a senior at a major university studying mathematics and computer science. So, this was very relatable.

love the video. Also I would agree, when you are in the hot seat it so different. I remember getting asked a question and to write inputs and outputs on the board. I started writing and then started questioning in my head what a less than equals sign was. I completely blew that interview but I learned and got better from it.

So nice to see this, thanks for the content!

after watching this video 1 year later I want to tell Eli that he will be a very cool engineer!

this is really valuable content. thanks for doing these!

This guy has balls to be put on the hot seat like that. Attay boy Eli!

I was always afraid that I get interviewed and get asked a bunch of leet code problems in interviews, but I guess in an entry level position basics are covered and a little bit of the programming language knowledge or proficiency test? By watching this I'm much more hopeful now! Oh, I'm a 3rd Year BS Computer Science student mainly focused in Frontend Engineering. Wish me luck guys!

You got it Eli! This interview was awesome!

I can so appreciate this because its happened to me where I am in an interview and was asked to revers a list using for loop in JS and its like my brain shuton down right

Your video gives me hope to further my programing studies. Thanks!

i feel like he would be like me if not in that seat and seeing that the else statement is obviously missing. When you're in front of even just one person watching your every logical step of the thought porcess adds enough pressure to make you forget and loose focus lol. Good video, it helps!

I wish I did more of these before my own interviews too with a friend. You learn alot! Did these tasks while watching, heres my answer for part 2: function closeSecondTag(html, tag){ let index = html.split(tag, 2).join(tag).length; return html.split("").map((s,i) => i === index ? s +="/" : s).join(""); } let fixed = closeSecondTag("help me", "") console.log(fixed) If your new to JavaScript this could look confusing but if you split it up and break it down, to learn whats happening. Use MDN docs and learn what some of the JS functions do. Good Luck ELI!

Great video and thank you for recording this. I'm still very new so correct me if I'm wrong. However, I picked up that in q2.js, `Here is a tag` would not be an edge case. If you were writing text in HTML about s', you will be using entity codes instead of the symbols. Therefore, your code will omit it!!

Eli, you did great in a newb but I did enjoy watching the thought process made me think about things a little differently. I enjoyed the case studies as well.

That's amazing, I really liked this interview, specially his way of trying to approach the problem and the way of how he asking questions, it's really smart. I am looking for part 2, even just how things going so far till now

This is awesome, thanks guys!

This video is true, I have two years experiece about fronted-developer.I think i can't answer some questions, but I can create any projects.If i don't konw about knowledge, I will search use Google and chatgpt

Pressure makes diamonds - Don't be scared to fail - at everything! Job interviews are both way! I always hated these technical interview that do not show off real talent. I started loving just being me during interviews and take as many as I could for places I thought I wanted to work. Places that valued business understanding over technical prowess was always a better fit for me as I can learn anything, yet when trying to get a new gig in a new language or platform, the gate keepers are sometime hard to impress. Another point was the interview being harder than the job because someone thought - let's put all that we want in a job description and see who shows up. Just don't be afraid to f'up and become better. I remember when a coding interview went south because me and their lead tech started to disagree and I was not backing down. 3 months later I was offered his job ;-) be you and get better at being you, warts and all!

Nader, cheers from Brazil!! And after all the content that i've watched of JS,yours its the most efficient,understandable and with the best exercises!! Keep it up! And... if you're interested we can do a mock interview too!!! It would be awesome for my experience! Sorry for bad english tho!

Nice work! I'm also learning coding. First excercise was easy but second, man ;) I've spend like whole evening reading web and managed to found soultion using regex. Great vid!

This video is really the most useful and relevant out there, can you please make a series of such videos for beginner interview series in JavaScript, it will be really helpful for the ones like me who are trying to switch to a tech career.

this was really good to watch, thank you

I recently started learning to code and this has been really useful

As a 33 year old prospective dev trying to teach myself after moving to new country (lots of life changes), this was a big confidence booster. If you ever feel like doing another one with someone, I'm game.

the convo at 29:50 makes me think that "HELLO" should return "HELLO" if the objective was just to capitalize every other character (and otherwise do nothing), but this seems to have not been the case, of course this is irrelevant, thanks for sharing this (and props Eli!)

It is very instructive to find this type of content. I took this interview as if I were the interviewee. This is my solution to the second question. function fixDivTags(s){ let f = true; return s.replace(//g,()=>{ f = !f; return f?'':'' }) } Thanks for your good work.

Amazing video and great job Eli!

Awesome interview! :) Im currently in a bootcamp and I tried to answer while watching. I came up with this answer for the second one: let hotdog = 0; const result = string.replace(//gi, match => ++hotdog % 2 === 0 ? '' : match;

Really really great interview. Props to Eli who struggled through the interview and done a great job here. I would love to collaborate with you for such interview later down the road. You really were a great interviewer helped him a lot giving him hints and stuff. Great job, keep up the good work.

Eli you did great! I think you will be less annoyed by tinkering with code problems as you continue to learn. It seems to me you 100% have the personality for development... Keep it up! Thanks Nader for bringing this to us.

Brother Nader, we need more interviews like these. Make it more real and professional. Ask and search around how recruiters are interviewing nowadays and then plz upload more videos about it, taking interviews from new guys for entry level jobs. Also brother Nader, I,m also trying to break into the industry as an entry level front end developer, so if you want to interview me next, I'm down to it. It will be a really good experience.☺️

this was amazing please do more interviews like this and senior level if u can :)

Wow, I was nervous, and it wasn't me being interviewed! This video fits me like a glove. Thank you guys for showing us pure raw footage of this process.