Tesla Interview

Tesla frontend software engineer for factory inventory, which uses Angular. In the telephone interview, a manager asked some highlevel Angular related questions, such as:

Google Layoff 2023

Google Onboarding

Dropbox Full-Stack Eng interview

Dropbox full stack interview is not LeetCode style, so it focuses on the design/debug/real work related coding, which is similar to Stripe. But the interview question setup is easier than the Stripe. Stripe problems are too long and requires much time to read. Also it depends on much context, such as the debug problem about preact.

Stripe Full-Stack Eng interview

Stripe interview is an interesting experience, which is different to the LeetCode style. It’s great to know the process and it will help you to get the position next time at least.

Javascript Detect Chinese and Japanese Characters

ElasticSearch search behavior is so weird. It works well to search any language except Chinese and Japanese, like Chinese “餐馆” and Japanese “大戸屋”. The workaround in front end is add double quotes to those characters. In usually Chinese, Japanese and Korean are named CJK, which are similar, but Korean it seems works fine. So here we discuss about how to detect Chinese and Japanese in JS.

Let's encrypt for S3

Suppose you already know how to host static web site via AWS CloudFront and S3, and you have your own domain name, now you want to have SSL to support https. As developer, I like to use free resources to do everything, like this site with github, and Lets Encrypt for SSL.

How to host single page app

Github IO Page or AWS S3 and CloudFront.

Google UX Engineer Interview

This is total different engineer interview experience, and I was disappointed by the interview because it absolutely not like Google interview style. Maybe another tiny part was I didn’t have chance to say NO to Google :)

Minimize Webpack JS bundle size for ReactJS

I noticed my Webpack js bundle size is 1.2MB for a long time, recent holiday finally have time to solve it and it was 788kb after some improvement, after gzip it was just 215KB.

dropbox sucks

Several years ago I thought Dropbox is cool when I first used it, cool and clean UI, easy to use on Mac. But these two days I tried to sync some folder from Linux, I have hell experience, not only because of the market, but also it’s product.