The Frontend Interview That Wasn't: How a Senior Candidate Got Lectured on Backends While the Company's Codebase Sat Exposed in Public View
In a recent interview, a candidate for a senior frontend role was interrogated for forty-five minutes on backend sync-versus-async architecture by a director who never asked about the frontend. A passive audit of the company's own web property afterwards revealed the entire frontend source code was being served as a public download, thirteen dangling subdomains, no login rate limiting, and mobile LCP at three times the "Poor" threshold.