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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at SmartBarrel (Miami, FL) in Feb 2026
Interview
Two round interview process. If you live in Florida they'll ask you to come down for the second one. It would be preferable to request to conduct the second technical interview online rather than traveling for it if further than 2 hours. First Interview: Heavy on Nuxt 3, if you know Nuxt this portion will be easy but expect some SSR questions if you've only used Nuxt with CSR. Also a couple questions about CSRF, XSS and cookies will show up.
Second interview: Be prepared to be drilled with about 20 questions on Javascript fundamentals and 10 on Vue/Nuxt fundamentals. I wasn't informed on the interview format and the recruiter was not aware either. The interviewer for the javascript portion puts alot of emphasis on questions discussing hoisting, scoping, promises, prototypes, classes, debugging (profiler), functions, map vs set, apply, call, bind and v8 engine. If you take a simple refresher on all these topics you should pass this portion. The Vue/Nuxt portion is relatively straightforward, but it seems the second interviewer expects answers that match very specific foundational definitions. They appear to prefer definition-based responses rather than example-driven explanations unless explicitly asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All these questions are done verbally, I'll show some examples.
Questions asked:
Javascript fundamentals:
Can you call a function before a variable
More questions on scoping, and hoisting based things...
xmlHttpRequest <-> Maybe it depends, the interviewer will go down a fetch/what does axios use under the hood rabbithole if possible.
Debugging, methods of determining something is running slow.
How to clone an object
Can you explain prototypes and what happens in different mutation scenarios? then he'll describe a scenario, I didn't understand the wording, but could have simply been the accent.
The call stack, how it works
The v8 engine, how it works too
What is Bun, and how it works, and what does it solve.
Promise:
All, Any, Race, AllSettled,
Vue/Nuxt:
Computed, useFetch, useAsyncData, $fetch, what happens when you try to use window in SSR, and some more SSR stuff.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at SmartBarrel in Jul 2025
Interview
The interview process was unprofessional and uncomfortable.
The interviewer began with inappropriate personal questions about my nationality and immigration background. Given current geopolitical tensions, this felt biased and irrelevant.
Technical questions focused only on Nuxt.js, ignoring that Vue.js is the foundation. It felt more like trying to expose weaknesses than fairly assess skills.
Communication was very poor. The interviewer’s English was difficult to follow, technologies were mispronounced, and I had to ask for clarification, making the interview frustrating and unproductive.
The overall tone was dismissive, including comments like wanting to “interview good engineers first.”
No feedback was ever provided afterward.
Overall: The process reflected bias, poor communication, and a lack of professionalism. I would not recommend interviewing here unless the company improves its interviewer training and evaluation practices.
I recently interviewed with the company, and unfortunately, it wasn’t a good experience. I answered all questions from memory without using any AI tools or notes, but the interviewer was very focused on whether I was using AI. The whole conversation felt more like an interrogation than a professional interview.
As someone with ADHD, it’s also natural for me to pause or move my eyes when recalling information, which may have been misunderstood during the interview.
Additionally, the interviewer’s English was very poor, to the point where it was almost impossible to have a proper dialogue or clear communication. This made the interview very uncomfortable and unproductive.
I hope the company works on improving both their interview process and interviewer qualifications to provide a better experience for future candidates.