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Sample Vetting Questions

Example questions at senior and principal level for React, with what a strong answer covers. They show the depth TeamStation AI tests. They are not a real candidate interview.

Rendering and speed

1. Principal level, Mental Model. A list of 5,000 rows re-renders on every keystroke in a search box. How do you find out why, and in what order do you try fixes?

   A strong answer covers: The profiler to see what rendered and why; Moving state closer to where it is used before adding memoization; Virtualizing the list; Marking the list update as non urgent.

2. Staff level, Accuracy. What does React compare when it decides whether a memoized component can skip a render, and how does an inline object prop defeat it?

   A strong answer covers: Shallow comparison of props; Reference identity, not contents; Stable references and when memoizing the value costs more than it saves; Constants moved out of the component.

3. Principal level, Cognitive Load. Why can an effect run twice in development, and what real bugs does that expose?

   A strong answer covers: Strict mode checks for impure rendering and missing cleanup; Effects that are not safe to repeat; Fixing the effect instead of turning the check off; Subscriptions and timers that leak.

4. Staff level, Procedural Knowledge. Largest Contentful Paint is 4.5 seconds on mobile for a React page. What is your diagnosis order?

   A strong answer covers: Field data before lab data; Render blocking scripts and bundle size; Image size and priority; Server rendering or streaming, and the cost of hydration.

State and data

5. Principal level, Mental Model. How is server state different from client state, and what goes wrong when a team puts both in one global store?

   A strong answer covers: Caching, staleness and invalidation; Request deduplication; Optimistic updates and rollback; A clear owner for each piece of data.

6. Staff level, Accuracy. A form has 40 fields and feels slow. Controlled or uncontrolled inputs, and what would change your mind?

   A strong answer covers: Re-renders per keystroke; Uncontrolled inputs or a form library; Validation timing; Accessibility of errors.

7. Principal level, Cognitive Load. Two browser tabs edit the same record. Design the optimistic update, the conflict handling and the rollback.

   A strong answer covers: A version or etag on the record; Rollback when the server refuses; What the user sees on conflict; Safe retries.

8. Staff level, Procedural Knowledge. A data hook sometimes shows the previous user's data after navigation. How do you find and fix that class of bug?

   A strong answer covers: Race between two requests; Stale closures; Cancelling or ignoring old responses; Cache keys that include every input.

Architecture and teams

9. Principal level, Mental Model. How do you split a 300 component app into features so teams ship without stepping on each other?

   A strong answer covers: Feature boundaries with a small public surface; Import rules enforced by lint; Shared UI kit ownership; Dependencies that only point one way.

10. Staff level, Accuracy. Server components, client components or fully client rendered: what do you pick for a logged in dashboard and for a marketing page?

    A strong answer covers: Search visibility needs; Where data is fetched; Bundle size and interactivity; Caching and authentication.

11. Principal level, Clarity. Your design system has 90 components and three teams keep forking them. What do you change?

    A strong answer covers: A contribution path that is faster than forking; Versioning and stable APIs; Design tokens; Accessibility built into each component.

12. Staff level, Cognitive Load. Migrate a class component codebase to hooks without a feature freeze. How do you sequence it?

    A strong answer covers: Leaf components first; Automated code changes with review; Tests as the safety net; Measuring that behavior did not change.

Testing and quality

13. Staff level, Mental Model. What do you test at the component level, what end to end, and what do you stop testing?

    A strong answer covers: Behavior a user can see, not internals; Contracts with the server; The cost of flaky tests; Tests that duplicate each other.

14. Principal level, Accuracy. Every test passes and the page is broken for screen reader users. What does that gap show and how do you close it?

    A strong answer covers: Queries by role and name; Automated accessibility checks plus manual checks; Keyboard paths; Focus handling after changes.

15. Staff level, Procedural Knowledge. An end to end test fails 1 time in 20. How do you find the cause?

    A strong answer covers: Reproducing with repeated runs; Waiting on state, not on time; Test isolation and deterministic data; Network and animation timing.

16. Principal level, Cognitive Load. Visual regressions keep slipping through. Design a strategy that does not drown the team in noise.

    A strong answer covers: Stable states for each component; Review ownership; Thresholds and cross browser coverage; What to leave out.

Production and debugging

17. Principal level, Cognitive Load. An error shows up for 0.3 percent of users, only on one Android browser. How do you find it?

    A strong answer covers: Release and device tags in error tracking; Source maps; Breadcrumbs or session replay; A flag to switch the change off.

18. Staff level, Procedural Knowledge. Memory grows during a long session in a single page app. How do you prove where?

    A strong answer covers: Comparing heap snapshots; Detached DOM nodes; Listeners and subscriptions never removed; Timers and caches without limits.

19. Principal level, Accuracy. How do you ship a risky interface change to 2 percent of users and decide whether to continue?

    A strong answer covers: Metrics chosen before the rollout; Guardrail metrics; A kill switch; Who makes the call and when.

20. Staff level, Clarity. Explain to a product manager why a small change touched 40 files.

    A strong answer covers: One real cause in plain words; Options with cost for each; What would prevent it next time; No framework jargon.

Leadership and AI tools

21. Principal level, Accuracy. An AI assistant wrote a 600 line component. What do you check first?

    A strong answer covers: Behavior against the requirement; Effects and cleanup; Accessibility; Bundle cost and tests.

22. Staff level, Clarity. Build or buy a data grid? Who is in the room and what evidence do you bring?

    A strong answer covers: Total cost over two years; Accessibility and performance at scale; License and exit path; What the product really needs.

23. Principal level, Cognitive Load. Leadership wants to change frameworks to hire faster. How do you respond?

    A strong answer covers: The actual hiring problem; Cost and risk of two stacks; A small proof first; A decision record that can be revisited.

24. Staff level, Procedural Knowledge. How do you mentor a mid level engineer whose components work but are hard to change?

    A strong answer covers: Examples from their own code; Naming and structure habits; Pairing then review; A way to see progress.

The five Axiom Cortex axes, with one example each

• Procedural Knowledge. Walk me through finding which component causes a slow keystroke in a large form. Looks for: Order of steps; What each step proves; What you do if the profiler shows nothing.
• Mental Model. Why does an effect with a missing dependency show stale values? Looks for: Closures capture values; Render versus effect timing; The right fix, not a workaround.
• Accuracy. What does memoizing a component guarantee, and what does it not? Looks for: Correct limits; Cost of the check; Says when it is unsure.
• Clarity. Explain to a designer why the page flashes old data before new data appears. Looks for: One cause named; One decision for the listener; Plain words.
• Cognitive Load. A release just went out, errors are up, a customer is escalating and the dashboard and logs disagree. What do you do first, second and third? Looks for: A clear order; Facts kept apart from guesses; Stays correct as facts change.

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