Deadline to apply: Dec 1, 2024

Leet Heat is a feel good, standalone, unscripted gameshow series that combines elements of Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and Hot Ones. Each episode challenges 2 contestants with a series of questions and code challenges across the many areas of expertise that make up modern web development.

About Us

Learn With Jason makes tv for developers. We're a production company run by Jason Lengstorf, an engineer with over 20 years of industry experience at companies like IBM and Netlify. We believe that developers deserve high-quality content that tells stories about our craft, featuring real professionals.

We focus on finding unique, joyful approaches to showcasing the best our industry has to offer. Developer education can be fun and entertaining while still remaining extremely actionable and valuable.

Our programming highlights the strength and diversity of our industry, sharing real developers' stories to help every developer learn, build, and grow their career together with a welcoming community.

What You Can Expect as a Contestant

As a contestant on the show, you'll be competing head-to-head with another contestant to prove who has the broadest understanding of full stack web development.

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Important: This show involves eating spicy food as a core part of the show!

• Certain scenarios will require you to eat a bite of food with hot sauce on it

• Later stages of the show will include a challenging spice level (e.g. hot sauce made with ghost chilis, Carolina Reapers, scorpion peppers)

• You will be asked to sign a medical release </aside>

• Questions will draw from full stack web development categories that may include, but are not limited to:

  • User experience

  • Styling / CSS

  • JavaScript / TypeScript

  • Databases

  • Accessibility

  • APIs / Backend

  • Computer Science and Algorithms

  • Web History

  • Interactivity and Animation

  • Performance

  • Web Standards

  • Deployment

  • AI

• Questions may be asked in any of the following formats:

  • Open answer

    • Example: What number do array indices start at in JavaScript?
      • You will be expected to answer with no prompts or hints

  • Multiple choice

    • Example: What does CORS stand for?

      A) Computed Output Response Specification

      B) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

      C) Cross-Origin Request Security

      D) Code Only Returns Sometimes

  • Code sight reading

    • Example: What gets logged by the following code?

      const value = false ?? 'fallback';
      
      console.log(value); // => what is value?
      

  • Fill-in-the-blank code

    • Example: What value of input makes this test pass?

      function double(input: number) {
         return input * 2;
      }
      
      expect(double(_)).toEqual(8);
      //            ^ what is this value?
      

  • Surprises!

    • We may throw in some twists in the questions.

• The show is competitive, but fun. The hosts will joke around with you. The spirit of the show is meant to be lighthearted, not hardcore.

What We Expect From You

People with web development experience of all levels are welcome to apply! We don't expect anyone will know all of the answers on the show — it would be pretty boring if no one got any questions wrong.

We're designing questions with the following developer persona in mind:

• You are based in the United States.
• You have at least 1–3 years of web development experience.
  • This doesn't need to be professional experience! Bootcamps, university, side projects, and anything else that kept you learning and building counts.
  • The questions are targeted at this level of experience. Feel free to apply at any experience level!
• You are a generalist with a bit of experience in lots of different areas of the stack.
• You are resilient and comfortable getting things wrong sometimes, as long as there's an opportunity to learn and grow.
• You have high-level exposure to the breadth of full stack development, including the categories listed above under "What You Can Expect From Us".
  • Reminder: you do NOT need to be an expert in any of these areas to participate!