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Got an itch for object-oriented JavaScript, cross-browser event handling, and pixel perfection?

Meebo is seeking top-notch JavaScript Engineers with strong CS fundamentals who feel at home developing high-quality web products that reach millions of users.

Responsibilities include:

• Work towards weekly milestones on the development of high-visibility, high-quality web products.
• Meet with team to assess feasibility and priority of new features.
• Participate in testing regularly scheduled releases.
• Collaborate with server-side engineers to optimize scalability and network efficiency.
• Stay up-to-date with relevant technologies and proactively suggest architecture changes and new coding practices.
• Other duties as appropriate.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Object-oriented JavaScript experience.
• Previous experience with the following web technologies: DHTML, CGI and CSS
• Previous experience with at least one scripting language (eg. Bash, Perl, or Python)
• Experience working with large web frameworks such as Dojo, prototype.js and Rico
• Phenomenal debugging principles

Try out these puzzles and send your answers (and resume) to jobs@meebo.com.

1. When does div.setAttribute("###") not equal div.###?

2. What's the difference between these two statements:

a. var x = 3;
b. x = 3;

3. What's the difference between:

a. !!(obj1 && obj2)
b. (obj1 && obj2)

4. Write a one-line piece of JavaScript code that concatenates all strings passed into a function:

function concatenate(/*any number of strings*/) {
  var string = /*your one line here*/
  return string;
}

5. What do these two examples have in common?
Example 1:

var obj = document.getElementById('adiv'); document.getElementById('adiv').ptr = obj;

Example 2:

function assignClick() {
  var el = document.createElement('div');
  function handleClick() {
    el.innerHTML = 'clicked!';
  }   el.attachEvent("onclick", handleClick);
}

Contact us! Send an email to jobs@meebo.com with your resume and answers attached.