/Job/ need: Javascript developer in San Francisco downtown, contract.

[chapai]

Mediaplex the technology division of ValueClick, provider of interactive
internet advertisement and marketing tools is looking for experienced
JavaScript and Flash developer.
Job located in downtown of San Francisco, CA, initially 3 month contract
with prolongation. Good company with friendly atmosphere and minimum of
bureaucracy.
Required knowledge of JavaScript: objects, closures, DOM manipulations, css
2-3, create/destroy/manipulate/positioning elements, cross domain/iframes
security (important), browser differences in JS and DOM and cross-browser
development, performance optimization, AJAX, debugging, error handling,
problem solving.
Required knowledge of Flash: Action Script2/3, write/create dynamic ad
banners (not a graphical design but code), interaction with JavaScript, find
and fix problems, etc.
Nice to have: jQuery, HTML5, canvas.
Please submit resume to http://www.valueclick.com/careers/

Additionally (not required), you can send following answers (b=? and _why_)
with attached resume to (e-mail address removed).

1. a = 2; b = a++ + (--a * ++a);
2. b=!-[1,];
3. b = +!{}[0];

 

[Sean Kinsey]

Mediaplex the technology division of ValueClick, provider of interactive
internet advertisement and marketing tools is looking for experienced
JavaScript and Flash developer.
Job located in downtown of San Francisco, CA, initially 3 month contract
with prolongation. Good company with friendly atmosphere and minimum of
bureaucracy.
Required knowledge of JavaScript: objects, closures, DOM manipulations, css
2-3, create/destroy/manipulate/positioning elements, cross  domain/iframes
security (important), browser differences in JS and DOM and cross-browser
development, performance optimization, AJAX, debugging, error handling,
problem solving.
Required knowledge of Flash: Action Script2/3, write/create dynamic ad
banners (not a graphical design but code), interaction with JavaScript, find
and fix problems, etc.
Nice to have: jQuery, HTML5, canvas.
Please submit resume to    http://www.valueclick.com/careers/

Additionally (not required), you can send following answers (b=? and _why_)
with attached resume to   (e-mail address removed).

1. a = 2; b = a++  +  (--a * ++a);
2. b=!-[1,];
3. b = +!{}[0];

Do you mean you only need to be smart enough to run the above code
step by step in firebug and deduct whats happening?

 

[Garrett Smith]

Stefan Weiss wrote:
[...]

2. b=!-[1,];

Question fail. This company is hiring "cross-browser" developers, but
they can't even produce an unambiguous screening test...

I can see how whoever wrote that would consider jQuery a "nice to have".

 

[John G Harris]

San Francisco, CA,

Is there really a San Francisco in Canada ?

John

 

[Mel Smith]

Is there really a San Francisco in Canada ?

Yes, but we call it ' St. Francis', and it is in Ontario (ON)

-Mel Smith
(living in Edmonton, AB and Mesa, AZ)

 

[Asen Bozhilov]

Additionally (not required), you can send following answers (b=? and _why_)
with attached resume to   (e-mail address removed).

1. a = 2; b = a++  +  (--a * ++a);
2. b=!-[1,];
3. b = +!{}[0];

The correct answers on your questions are there:
<URL: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Style-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0070342075
/>

The local guru can read that book. After he reads that book, can help
on your company to gives better questions!

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected]
8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:01:07, John G Harris

Is there really a San Francisco in Canada ?

Google Maps finds several, including
San Francisco Pizza, near Bradford West Gwillimbury, ON, Canada

 

[VK]

Might that not be the point of that question; that the answer should
include the fact that different environments (and, in broad terms,
which) will result in different values. Possibly making the other two
questions no more than camouflage to conceal the trap here.

" 1. a = 2; b = a++ + (--a * ++a);
2. b=!-[1,];
3. b = +!{}[0]; "

IMHyetStrongO the really right answer the company expects is: "Find
that guy who produced any resemblance of the code above and hand him
on the highest tree in company's office backyard with the tablet
'Squeezecrypters to be warned'. Make sure that it visible from the
office windows."
A lesser sadistic variant of the answer: "Find that squeezecrypter and
fire his a** out. Take me instead: you will never see anything like
that in my code".

At least I would take that candidate right away, no matter if others
would sent a step-by-step per platform explanations.

P.S. I am not kidding - except hanging one anyone.
P.P.S. I am not pretending to that job. Just a boss-to-boss
suggestion.