Front-end Engineering Interview Prep Course

Nail Your Next Front-End Engineering Interview

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Program designed by FAANG+ leads

Covering data structures, algorithms, interview-relevant topics, and career coaching

Individualized teaching and 1:1 help

Technical coaching, homework assistance, solutions discussion, and individual session

Mock interviews with Silicon Valley engineers

Live interview practice in real-life simulated environments with FAANG and top-tier interviewers

Personalized feedback

Constructive, structured, and actionable insights for improved interview performance

Career skills development

Resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, personal branding, and live behavioral workshops

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Our highly experienced instructors are active hiring managers and employees at FAANG+ companies and know exactly what it takes to ace tech and managerial interviews.

A typical week at Interview Kickstart

This is how we make your interview prep structured and organized. Our learners spend 10-12 hours each week on this course.

Thu

Get foundational content

Get high-quality videos and course material for next week’s topic

Covers introduction to fundamentals, interview-relevant topics, and case studies

Attend timed test and review session

1-hour timed test covering essential interview questions on the current week's topics

1-hour timed test review session to discuss the test solution and other best practices

Sun

Attend online live sessions

Attend 4-hour sessions covering interview applications of Front-end concepts

Each class covers a wide variety of interview problems, open-ended interview questions, and how to approach these questions

Live feedback from a Tier-1 tech instructor

Mon-Wed

Practice problems & case studies

Practice the concepts taught in live sessions to solve assignment questions

Work on interview-oriented interview problems and discuss the solutions

Live doubt-solving from FAANG+ Front-end instructors

Every day

1:1 access to instructors

Personalized coaching from FAANG+ Front-end instructors

Individualized and detailed attention to your questions

Solution walkthroughs

Front-end Engineering Course details and curriculum

Data structures and Algorithms

1

Sorting

  • Introduction to Sorting
  • Basics of Asymptotic Analysis and Worst Case & Average Case Analysis
  • Different Sorting Algorithms and their comparison
  • Algorithm paradigms like Divide & Conquer, Decrease & Conquer, Transform & Conquer
  • Presorting
  • Extensions of Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort
  • Common sorting-related coding interview problems

2

Recursion

  • Recursion as a Lazy Manager’s Strategy
  • Recursive Mathematical Functions
  • Combinatorial Enumeration
  • Backtracking
  • Exhaustive Enumeration & General Template
  • Common recursion- and backtracking-related coding interview problems

3

Trees

  • Dictionaries & Sets, Hash Tables 
  • Modeling data as Binary Trees and Binary Search Tree and performing different operations over them
  • Tree Traversals and Constructions 
  • BFS Coding Patterns
  • DFS Coding Patterns
  • Tree Construction from its traversals 
  • Common trees-related coding interview problems

4

Graphs

  • Overview of Graphs
  • Problem definition of the 7 Bridges of Konigsberg and its connection with Graph theory
  • What is a graph, and when do you model a problem as a Graph?
  • How to store a Graph in memory (Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Adjacency Maps)
  • Graphs traversal: BFS and DFS, BFS Tree, DFS stack-based implementation
  • A general template to solve any problems modeled as Graphs
  • Graphs in Interviews
  • Common graphs-related coding interview problems

5

Dynamic Programming

  • Dynamic Programming Introduction
  • Modeling problems as recursive mathematical functions
  • Detecting overlapping subproblems
  • Top-down Memorization
  • Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Optimizing Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Common DP-related coding interview problems
System Design

1

Online Processing Systems

  • The client-server model of Online processing
  • Top-down steps for system design interview
  • Depth and breadth analysis
  • Cryptographic hash function
  • Network Protocols, Web Server, Hash Index
  • Scaling
  • Performance Metrics of a Scalable System
  • SLOs and SLAs
  • Proxy: Reverse and Forward
  • Load balancing
  • CAP Theorem
  • Content Distribution Networks
  • Cache
  • Sharding
  • Consistent Hashing
  • Storage
  • Case Studies: URL Shortener, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, Messaging/Chat Services

2

Batch Processing Systems

  • Inverted Index
  • External Sort Merge
  • K-way External Sort-Merge
  • Distributed File System
  • Map-reduce Framework
  • Distributed Sorting
  • Case Studies: Search Engine, Graph Processor, Typeahead Suggestions, Recommendation Systems

3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Front-end Domain Course

1

JavaScript Language and Libraries

  • What to expect in a FAANG front-end coding interview: Company-specific aspects
  • Challenging JS coding problems: Behavior and usage of “this” keyword. How to bind a function’s scope. Arrow functions vs. binding
  • Limiting the scope of variables (a commonly tested concept in interviews). Patterns for creating “private” variables
  • Use built-in JavaScript data structures to solve problems in a time-constrained interview setting. Explain trade-offs between using object literals, maps, sets, and arrays
  • Strategies to solve important problems involving concepts such as currying and callbacks
  • Popular FAANG interview questions on writing code that runs asynchronously, with and without promises
  • Frequently asked coding problems:
    • Existential get() operation using string key
    • Write a function that, until all N arguments are provided, returns a function for consuming more arguments (currying example)
    • Memoization of an async function

2

UI and DOM

  • A structured approach to identifying and solving complex problems that require a combination of HTML, CSS, and JS knowledge (frequently asked in Front-end interviews)
  • How to handle unique UI challenges posed in FAANG interviews by setting up reusable UI components
  • How to consistently position items on the page or within a relative parent (an important skill for UI Developers)
  • Strategies to solve problems using modern JavaScript. Connect the code to the UI elements
  • Tips to efficiently design and code UI elements like Dropdowns, Tooltip, Progress Button, etc
  • Comprehensive guidelines on managing requirements of design-centric problems
  • Questions on using Flexbox to quickly solve complex design challenges

3

Front-end System Design

  • ​​Design complex/large-scale Front-end Systems like Netflix, FB home page, Infinite Scroller, Instagram, etc
  • Popular FAANG interview question on designing a redux-like state management system from scratch
  • Design and build reusable UI Components: How common components system work
  • How to think, act and articulate like a Front-end architect and tech lead, displaying senior+ signals in System Design interviews using methodical and structured interview strategy
  • Evaluate options, perform trade-offs, and analyze the business impact of modern web development frameworks:
    • Essential understanding of popular UI libraries and frameworks such as React, Angular, etc
    • Portability across frameworks, platforms, devices
  • How to manage the state of a UI application (a demonstration of how to approach programming questions in the UI system design domain)
  • Design a common components library such as Bootstrap
  • Design a UI component SDK (a common theme in Front-end System Design interviews)
  • Industry trends within Front-end engineering and surrounding domains (AI/ML)

4

Patterns, Tools, and Techniques

  • Non-trivial questions on Front-end fundamentals such as explaining the differences and trade-offs between several “A or B” techniques:
    • == vs. === and when to use each
    • Classical vs. prototypal inheritance
    • Functional programming vs. OOP
    • Storage: Cookies vs. localStorage vs. sessionStorage
  • How to implement solutions on top of an existing code solution that takes their score from 4 to 5:
    • Accounting for internationalization
    • Keyboard events and accessibility
    • Advanced CSS techniques: Positioning with translate and media queries
  • Challenging coding problems:
    • Animate away onClick
    • Animate away using tab and keyboard events
Career Coaching

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Interview Strategy and Success

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Behavioral Interview Prep

3

Offers and Negotiation

Support Period

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15 mock interviews

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Take classes you missed/retake classes/tests

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1:1 technical/career coaching

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Interview strategy and salary negotiation support

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Practice for your target domain - Front-end Engineering

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Identify and work on your improvement areas

Transparent, non-anonymous interviews

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1. Flexible schedule

Pick timings convenient to you

4. Technical and behavioral interviews

Uplevel your technical and behavioral interview skills

2. Remote interview experience

Mirrors the current format of remote interviews

5. Level-specific interviews

Because an L4 at Google can be quite different from an E7 at Meta

3. Feedback documentation

All the feedback you’ve ever wanted, recorded and documented

6. Interviewer of your choice

Choose based on company and/or domain

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Our engineers land high-paying and rewarding offers from the biggest tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, and Netflix.

How to enroll for the Front-End Engineering Interview Course?

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A Free Guide to Kickstart Your Front-End Engineering Career at FAANG+

From the interview process and career path to interview questions and salary details — learn everything you need to know about Front-End Engineering careers at top tech companies.

Interview Strategy and Success

Interview Questions

Career Path

Salary and Levels at FAANG

Frequently Asked Questions

What to Expect at Front-end Engineer Interviews

Front-end interviews typically test your coding abilities, UI programming skills, knowledge of Front-end frameworks and tools, and ability to build scalable interfaces for websites and applications.

While the interview process is similar at top companies, comprising an initial recruiter screen, the technical screen, and the on-site interview, there can be subtle differences in the number of rounds based on the company in question and seniority associated with the role.

Let’s look at what the Front-end interview process looks like in general.

1

Recruiter phone screen

A 15- to 30-minute HR recruiter call to check your background, experience, and skills. The aim of this round is to find if you’re the right fit for the role.

2

Technical screening

This interview round is an online screening round which is usually 45mnts to 1 hour long. You are asked a few behavioural questions and coding [DSA] problems during the technical screening round

3

On-site round

The On-site interview involves four to five rounds in total, with dedicated rounds for coding, system design, Front-end domain concepts, and behavioral psychology. The on-site interview includes the following rounds/interviews:

  • Coding interviews (x2)
  • Design interview
  • Architecture interview
  • Career and behavioral interview

Front-end Interview Questions

The Front-end interview typically includes coding, design, and UI programming questions. Front-end interview questions include behavioral and leadership-based questions during the on-site interview.

1

Front-end Engineering Interview Questions on Coding

Before we take a look at the most popular Front-end Engineer interview questions, let’s get acquainted with the basic coding skills a Front-end Engineer should be familiar with:

Here’s the list of Front-end Developer interview questions:

Write a program to print the left view of a binary search tree. 

Write a program to compute the missing elements from a sequence for a 2-dimensional array.

Write a program to get the width of an inverted binary tree.

Write a program to find if a string is a Palindrome.

Write a program to find the shortest path between two points in a graph.

Design a poll widget

How would you ensure clicking on this picture would go to a specific link?

Given a grid of characters, output a coded message

Implement a square root function

Given a grid of characters, output a coded message

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Domain-specific Front-end Interview Questions

Before we take a look at the most popular Front-end Engineer interview questions, let’s get acquainted with the basic coding skills a Front-end Engineer should be familiar with:

  • Online Processing Systems
  • Batch Processing Systems
  • Databases and Network Protocols
  • API Modeling
  • Sharding, Loading, Caching
  • Concurrency
Here is the list of Front-end Engineering interview questions on system design and core Front-end concepts:

What design aspects would you consider while building a scalable application?

What design aspects will you consider while building a messaging service?

Explain the Front-end design for an e-commerce website.

What are some popular methods used in jQuery?

What techniques will you use to improve the performance of a new website?

How would you implement a news feed (which has only posts of text and pictures)?

How would you implement a photo album?

Design a general-purpose typeahead component

Design and code a Pinterest-style UI, where cards stack top/down and scroll infinitely

3

Front-end Interview Questions on Behavioral Skills

Tell us about the most challenging project that you worked on.

Tell us about when you had to adapt to a new team.

Tell us about a time when you had to upgrade your current set of skills for a new project.

Tell us about a time when you disagreed with your manager regarding the direction of a project.

Tell us about a time when you shared your learnings with your team.

Talk about a recent/favorite project and some of the difficulties you had.

Talk about a time you struggled to work with one of your colleagues.

Tell us about a time you were given constructive feedback.

Tell us about a time you struggled on one of your software projects.

To access more Front-end interview questions, check some of our elaborate resources:

Front-end Engineering Career path

Front-end Engineering provides excellent career opportunities for Engineers who want to advance their careers in Front-end development. This section discusses Front-end Engineering jobs at FAANG+ companies and what to expect from a typical Front-end Engineering job description.

Let’s look at a list of skills required to fulfill the role’s responsibilities.

General skills needed to become a Front-end Engineer:

Front-end Developers should have hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of:

  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • C++/Java/Python
  • Angular/React/Polymer/Ba
  • ckbone/Closure
  • UI Design, System Design
  • Problem-solving in a limited time

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Front-end Engineer Job Requirements: Roles and Responsibilities

Front-end Developers specialize in website and UI design. They work in teams alongside Back-end Developers, graphic designers, and UX designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. Front-end Developers are also responsible for website speed and other aspects of the user experience, making their role crucial to the performance of websites and applications.

To understand the role better, knowing the typical roles and responsibilities that the role entails is important. Let’s look at what responsibilities Front-end Developer jobs entail.

Front-end Engineers typically carry out the following tasks:

Work closely with UX Designers, Project Managers, and Back-end Engineers to implement versatile Front-end solutions to web development issues.

Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers

Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in Front-end technologies

Implement web design principles to ensure that the website functions smoothly across devices and platforms

Design frameworks for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company

Monitor website performance, monitor traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify issues.

Review app and feature codes, and plan future website upgrades with the development team

Optimize individual web pages for maximum speed and scalability

Utilize a variety of markup languages to write web pages

Explore product concepts to find promising directions that address both human and business needs

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Career Roadmap for a Front-end Engineer

The typical career progression for a Front-end role looks like the following:

Junior Front-end Developer/Engineer → Front-end Developer/Engineer → Front-end Developer/Engineer II → Senior Front-end Developer/Engineer → Staff Front-end Developer/Engineer OR Front-end Software Architect

Front-end Engineer Salaries and Levels at FAANG+ Companies

The average Front-end Developer salary in the US is $119,224, but the salary range typically falls between $106,922 and $130,083. Front-end salaries vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, and professional experience.

Meta Front-end Developer Salary

The average Meta Front-end Engineer earns $148,640 annually, which includes a base salary of $128,378 with a $20,262 bonus. This total compensation is $41,495 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.

Front-end Engineer salaries at Meta can range from $80,000 – $300,000, with equity ranging from 10-100K+.

Front-end Developer at Meta

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

E3

US$184K

US$122K

US$42K

US$21K

E4

US$266K

US$163K

US$83K

US$23K

E5

US$386K

US$197K

US$156K

US$35K

E6

US$575K

US$230K

US$298K

US$51K

E7

US$922K

US$271K

US$582K

US$77K

E8

US$1.64M

US$310K

US$1.25M

US$82K

Amazon Front-end Engineer Salary

The average Amazon Front-end Engineer earns $149,485 annually, which includes a base salary of $116,117 with a $33,368 bonus. This total compensation is $42,340 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.

Front-end Engineer salaries at Amazon can range from $86,400 – $210,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.

Front-end Engineer at Amazon

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

L4

US$166K

US$126K

US$22K

US$20K

L5

US$233K

US$154K

US$65K

US$20K

L6

US$337K

US$170K

US$157K

US$18K

L7

US$597K

US$183K

US$389K

US$39K

L8

US$859K

US$218K

US$641K

US$0

Apple Front-end Developer Salary

The average Apple Front-end Engineer earns $132,640 annually, which includes a base salary of $115,617 with a $17,023 bonus. This total compensation is $25,495 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Apple can range from $87,000 – $170,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.

Front-end Developer at Apple

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

ICT2

US$163K

US$125K

US$26K

US$16K

ICT3

US$217K

US$147K

US$55K

US$18K

ICT4

US$315K

US$185K

US$106K

US$26K

ICT5

US$447K

US$217K

US$193K

US$39K

ICT6

US$738K

US$269K

US$409K

US$61K

Netflix Front-end Developer Salary

The average Netflix Front-end Engineer earns an estimated $138,643 annually, which includes an estimated base salary of $120,969 with a $17,674 bonus. Netflix’s Front-end Engineer compensation is $31,499 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.

Front-end Engineer salaries at Netflix can range from $67,000 – $215,000.

Front-end Developer at Netflix

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

New Sr. SW. Engineer

US$226K

US$206K

US$19K

US$20K

Sr. SW. Engineer

US$497K

US$491K

US$24K

US$353K

Google Front-end Developer Salary

The average Google Front-end Engineer earns $156,806 annually, which includes a base salary of $121,898 with a $34,908 bonus. This total compensation is $49,661 more than the US average for a Front-end Engineer.
Front-end Engineer salaries at Google can range from $80,746 – $430,000, with equity ranging from 0-100K+.

Front-end Developer at Google

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

L3

US$191K

US$131K

US$39K

US$21K

L4

US$268K

US$159K

US$81K

US$29K

L5

US$357K

US$189K

US$133K

US$37K

L6

US$493K

US$225K

US$217K

US$57K

L7

US$696K

US$265K

US$350K

US$85K

L8

US$1.04M

US$332K

US$605K

US$120K

FAQs on Front-End Engineering Interview Course

Interview Kickstart’s Front-end Developer course is a 15-week program followed by a 6-month support period.

IK’s Front-end Engineering Interview Course is specifically designed to help you land high-paying Front-end Developer jobs at FAANG+ companies.

Interview Kickstart’s Front-end Engineering Interview Course includes an additional 6-month support period. You can schedule mock interviews with FAANG+ instructors, one-on-one mentor sessions, attend office hours to clarify doubts with instructors, and get assistance with landing interviews and salary negotiation.

Yes, the Front-end Engineering Interview Course is for current or former UI/Front-end programmers with at least two years of experience.

Interview Kickstart’s Front-end Engineering Interview Course covers core Data Structures and Algorithms, Front-end-focused Distributed Systems Design, UI/UX programming principles, Front-end tools and frameworks, and behavioral and leadership concepts.

How to enroll for the Front-End Engineering Interview Course?

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