Interview Questions for

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Introduction
AngularJS is a great framework that continues to
evolve with the community.
The AngularJS community is not only large; its
highly engaged as well.
Choosing the right AngularJS developer is essential
to your organizations digital progress. T
The right talent can be pivotal to your software
development team. If you find the finest of
developers, you can succeed in securing the top
development team.
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Introduction contd..
This article offers a set of insightful questions to
help you identify amazing AngularJS developers who
are experts in their field.
Before jumping in the questions, lets take a look at
what skills you should look for in an AngularJS
developer.

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Must have AngularJS Skills

Below are the must have skills you should look for
when hiring an AngularJS developer.
1. Proficiency with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
. This is obvious, but if you want to hire a great
AngularJS professional he needs to know JavaScript
and HTML.
. The efficiency with JavaScript ensures better
performance and a cleaner modular code structure.
. He should be well-versed in the best practices that
are critical to building AngularJS web applications
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properly.

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2. Good understanding of MVVM and MVC.
If you want to hire a professional AngularJS
developer, he must know MVC/MVVM model, design
patterns.
The candidate should have a good grasp of
Separation of concerns
Data binding
Command binding
Validation
Unit testing
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3. Build an App.
Ask whether the candidate has built an app?
This implies that this candidate is much more
valuable than someone who says they know AngularJS
but hasnt actually built anything. Ask questions in
details here.

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Must have AngularJS Skills contd..

4. StrongCommunication Skills.
Lastly and maybe most important. An Angular
developer might very well become the main
communication node of your team.
They will need to constantly cooperate with the
back-end team, the HTML coders, and the designers.
See whether the candidate can explain technical
concepts effectively to coworkers, and less technically
savvy clients.
Make sure your AngularJS developer is
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anoutstanding problem solver.

Important AngularJS Topics

Grill candidates on the below topics, go more in
depth. This will provide you a fair view of candidates
knowledge.
Modules
Directives
Filters
Services
Routing
Templates
Scope
Data Binding
Dependency Injection
Expressions
MVC (Model, View, Controller)
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Unit Testing

AngularJS Interview Questions

Now here is the list of AngularJS interview questions
for experienced. Read them, bookmark them,
comment on them, or even contribute your own.
1. Mention some AngularJS directives and their
purpose.
2. How to create Directive using AngularJS. Give an
example.
3. Can we use the open-source Closure Library with
Angular? How?
4. How could one create asingle-page application
using AngularJS? Which provider is used to achieve
this objective?
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5. Explain how MVC
is achieved with AngularJS? What

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6. What is restrict option in directive? Can you define
multiple restrict options on a directive?
7. What are the differences between AngularJS
modules Service, Provider and Factory?
8. The following HTML is given
<button ng-click=showAlert()>ALERT</button>
How can the attached controller look like, to show an
alert window when clicking on the button?
9. What is the difference between .$digest() and .
$apply()? Why would you ever call .$digest() on a
scope?
10. Explain AngularJS boot process.
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11. How can be the permission denied errors handled
with AngularJS? Explain with example.
12. At framework level, how does Angular retrieve
the matching elements for processing? Give example.
13. List a few ways to improve performance in an
AngularJS app.
14. Can we have nested controllers in AngularJS? In
the case of nested controllers, does the $scope object
is shared across all controllers?
15. With which methods you can bootstrap your
angular app for multiple modules? Explain the
methods in detail.
16. What is routing? How can we implement routing
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in Angular?

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17. How AngularJS is compiled? How is AngularJS
compilation different from other JavaScripts
framework?
18. What is dependency injection and how does it
work in Angular? How does DI benefit in Angular?
19. How does Angular JS know when to perform dirty
checking and update DOM output?
20. How can we dynamically create forms in
Angular?
21. What are the different custom directive types in
AngularJS? How can custom directives be applied to
an element as well as attributes?
22. Describe an approach to testing directives.
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23. Explain $q service, deferred and promises.

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24. What is Isolate Scope and why it is required?
25.Which means of communication between
modules of your application are easily testable?
26.With more than one ng-app in an HTML
document (an HTML page), are they automatically
initialized? Describe the AngularJS application
initialization process with multiple ng-app in an HTML
document/page.
27. How to do Language Internationalization in
AnglarJS?
28.Explain digest life-cycle in AngularJS. What
happens when you do the changes to the scope
outside the angular context?
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29. What is the difference between Angular and
Polymer? What problems does Polymer solve that
AngularJS has not or will not? Are there plans to tie
Polymer in with AngularJS in the future?
30.The most popular e2e testing tool for AngularJS is
Protractor. There are also others which rely on similar
mechanisms. Describe how e2e testing of AngularJS
applications work?
Ask questions on Angular 2.0, AtScript and its up
gradations.
Asking questions on up gradations or upcoming
technologies gives
you a better idea of candidates
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Conclusion
This presentation covered a wider spectrum of
skills and knowledge that would historically be
expected from AngularJS professionals.
A great Angular developer is perhaps more of an
engineer. It is expected from the developer to be
proficient with the environment of AngularJS, but
experience and an understanding of the wider
ecosystem of the application should be a
requirement.
You are a hiring manager or recruiter and want to
have a better talent pool to select from.
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Conclusion contd..
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Conclusion contd..
Javascript Skill tests validate angularjs skills of
the candidate using JavaScript Skills test.
There is more to interviewing than tricky technical
questions, so these are intended merely as a guide.
A well-planned hiring process is what allows you to
find and keep a master AngularJS developer.

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