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One of the interviewers开发者_运维知识库 asked to impress him with the JavaScript and CSS skills. He provided a link to two websites and asked to write a JavaScript application (page or pages) that takes content from one or both of these websites and demonstrates my command of jQuery and CSS. It doesn’t have to be useful to end-users, but it should be interesting to programmers.

What interesting things should I write? What would impress you in the candidate?

P.S. The sites have real-estate information.

So, what would be the best way to read information from a given URL and extract some of it using jQuery?

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That interview question is so subjective. What impresses one person might be basic to another. Why not ask a more meaningful question that demonstrates whether or not the candidate actually knows the language.

With all that said and if you really want to work for this company, I would study up on the basics of both js and jquery and really learn how to optimize basic functions. If you had to impress me then you should try to optimize a block of code as best you can without making the code unreadable. There's nothing better than clean, fast and readable code.