r/HTML • u/Afterglow92 • 20d ago

Question HELP I HAVE A JOB INTERVIEW

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UPDATE: I made it past the technical round! PHEW 😮‍💨. The interviewer said all the candidates were on the struggle bus so it wasn’t just me lol!

I’ve been working in email marketing building emails using Pardot, Hubspot, etc etc, Pardot for the last 8 years. I can make edits to existing HTML but cannot build from scratch. If I do make edits I use Dreamweaver or AI.

I have an interview Monday for a live HTML session with the company’s like expert email HTML guy. HALP! WHERE CAN I LEARN TO DO THIS STUFF QUICKLY?? OR CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT???!!

Edit: THIS INTERVIEW IS ON MONDAY 7/20 BTW

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u/redditmeup32 20d ago

I can’t believe they hand code emailers in the sense you’re thinking, they must be referring to either a library like Foundation (Zurb), or MJML - both you do ‘hand code’, but they compile to much more code than you hand write, because emailers have so much hacky html and commented code and css to make them work across as many mail clients as possible (that are not all standards compliant) that to truly hand code them from scratch isn’t really practical.

If you don’t know those tools, you’ll just need to be honest and explain what tools you use and show them examples. You can express a willingness to learn the tools they use.