BeginnerCultural Fit / Situational
Imagine you join our team and during a sprint you notice our front-end codebase mixes inconsistent naming conventions and styles (e.g., BEM in some places, random class names elsewhere). How would you handle this as a new entry-level developer?
Frontend Developer
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Sample Answer

S (Situation): In a previous group project, our CSS had inconsistent naming and scattered styles, which slowed us down and caused visual bugs. T (Task): As a new team member, my goal was to improve consistency without blocking progress or overstepping as a junior. A (Action): First, I raised the issue during a stand-up and asked if there was an agreed convention. When I learned there wasn’t, I proposed we adopt a simple standard (like BEM) and documented a short style guide in our repo’s README. I suggested we apply it gradually: for any file we touched, we would refactor class names and structure to match the convention, and I added a basic CSS linter configuration (stylelint) to our pipeline. I asked for a quick review from a more experienced teammate to ensure alignment. R (Result): Within two sprints, about 60–70% of our active components followed the new convention. Merge conflicts in CSS-related files dropped noticeably, and onboarding a new teammate became easier because they could rely on a single, documented pattern.

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