Wow a web scraper! That's oddly specific! And yeah I can imagine how stressful it would be with a kid banging on interrupting your thinking.

Thanks. I've been putting it off for weeks now and have only recently been spending time on it. It's almost done and way past your suggested one week window. I guess I'll still turn it in coz you'll never know right? Nothing ventured nothing gained. I guess I gotta pick things up quicker on the next round...

There wasn't an interview. They got my resume, said thanks for applying, here's a coding problem. We understand people are busy, please take the time to "build a solution you're proud to discuss and show to other developers". That's pretty much it. I don't regret taking the time to do it, I've learnt a tonne just implementing and testing it alone. Though the pressure of it being assessed on the prospects of a job is nail-biting and makes you question whether all of it is good enough!

Yeah, this is another thing that kind of irks me. The tests are always on raw fundamental code. It'd be nice if they tested you on making a web app if you're applying for a web dev role, y'know? Stuff you'll be making or using everyday. But then, the fundamentals are there for a reason. If you know your fundamentals well, you can program pretty much anything regardless of frameworks or languages... Thanks for the reply though! The interview at least revealed what I need to work on more and like you said, get out of my comfort zone and into the raw fundamental zone. :)

Hey Sandeep, Q&A portion of the interview went great. I'm sure the interviewer liked me and I was never very nervous presenting myself. I just know I don't present well when programming code. The coding challenge was very basic but somehow I still managed to screw it up (It was a pretty simple 'reverse this set of arrays' question). Had 15 minutes to come up with a solution but completely froze up when my javascript wouldn't work. You're right though. It's down to practice. I submitted another answer to the interviewer after the time was up. I'm hoping he likes me enough to take it into consideration! Thank you for the support. I'm glad to know even industry veterans struggle sometimes. I'm just so used to working with frameworks and libraries that programming something in fundamental code and end up feeling super foreign.