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.