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Comment by teaearlgraycold | Hacker News Reader

I remember a front-end interview my coworker administered where the candidate was asked what a CSS rule and CSS selector were, and the candidate could not answer. They had no idea what those terms meant. I think they'd only ever used React styled components.

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“React-styled components”?

What do you mean by this? You still use CSS rules and selectors to style React components.

Also, maybe your coworker should up their interview game. Instead of asking “define this term” questions, maybe they should ask candidates to actually demonstrate skill.

(Also, it’s a bit weird to tell a “story” like this that happened to your coworker. Were you guys making fun of the candidate afterwards or something? I think we learned more about you and your coworker than about the candidate from your anecdote.)

Styled Components is a library for React that moves CSS styles into the JS code. Depending on how junior the interviewee was, and what tech they were primarily working with, it's possible they never encountered those terms even as they contributed to the code.

Or maybe they just pitched themselves as "full stack" when they were really more back end focused. Doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.

> Styled Components is a library for React that moves CSS styles into the JS code.

Thanks, I see.

> Doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.

The veracity of GP’s comment wasn’t my main concern.

I’m disappointed you’d assume the most toxic interpretation possible there. My coworker came to me and was just curious if the question, which was new, was reasonable - having seen it received so much confusion.

Sure.

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