Design & User Experience Topics
User experience design, frontend architecture, and design systems. Includes UX principles, accessibility, and design documentation.
Technical Depth & Areas of Specialization
Every strong candidate has one or more areas of technical depth that go beyond generalist knowledge. Discuss the area(s) where you have the most depth: how you identify it (a subsystem, technology, domain, or class of problem you gravitate toward), a concrete project or accomplishment that demonstrates that depth, how you actively keep that expertise current (reading, communities, side projects, postmortems), and how that depth changes the way you make trade-offs or collaborate with generalists on your team. Areas of specialization are highly individual and role-dependent (examples span distributed systems reliability, accessibility and design systems, security architecture, data pipelines, performance optimization, mobile platforms) - the interviewer should probe the candidate's own stated specialization rather than assume a fixed domain.
Artificial Intelligence Assisted Workflows
Covers how professionals use AI tools to accelerate their day to day work: selecting appropriate use cases for AI assistance, iterating on prompts and instructions to get useful output, generating drafts, variations, or code and evaluating them critically, integrating AI generated output into one's own deliverables without introducing errors, validating outputs against requirements, quality standards, or user needs, and recognizing ethical concerns such as bias, over reliance, and misattributed authorship when applying AI in professional work.