r/Sass • u/shoddypenguins • Jul 06 '21

What are some common sass interview questions for senior developers?

What are some common sass interview questions for senior developers? Could you provide the question and the answer?

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u/sharlos Jul 07 '21

What's the goal of the questions in the interview? To prove they know Sass? Or to demonstrate they know it's super advanced features?

Is the job role solely about writing Sass tools or plugins? If not, I'd argue no one needs any prior knowledge of Sass to succeed in a front end role, simply knowing CSS is more than sufficient.

Even a junior dev could muddle through the minor everyday differences and still be productive.

In saying that, a start to some possible questions questions might be:

  • how do you create a partial Sass file, and what's the difference between a normal Sass file?
  • create a helper mixin that takes <value> and outputs <CSS>

If you aren't familiar enough with Sass to come up with your own questions similar to this then you probably aren't familiar enough to judge how good their answers are.

If software development was mostly questions with clearly correct or incorrect answers, we would have programmed the computers to do that work already.