Questions for Yandex layout designers?

Question

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04/20 I'm going to Yandex.Simferopol (head frontend office) to talk, share my experience.
From us: share our work experience, organizing the work of the markup department from scratch, what we have achieved, how, what we can boast of, how work processes go, what we use, what we tried, what we try, what worked / what didn’t, how we hired people, interviewed how we try to improve conditions, etc.
From them: find out how they are, also learn something from their work experience, work organization, talk about the formalization of criteria for assessing the quality of layout, coding agreements, talk about BEM, talk about its adaptation to the work of small companies, talk about your experience, etc.
I am sure along the way in communication a bunch of interesting topics will emerge.
If you have any questions for Yandex layout designers, please write, I will be happy to ask.

Answer 1

How is the interview with layout designers going, what are the test tasks? Selection levels? Where are layout designers headhunted?
How do you write internal codestyle specs? How do you organize static HTML templates?
These questions are not only for Yandex, if you also share your experience, they will be grateful.
I am organizing a layout department in Odnoklassniki, if there is a desire, we can also meet somewhere and chat.

Answer 2

What is the average salary of a pure layout designer in Yandex?

Answer 3

Do layout designers make sprites and base64-embedded images? Maybe this is already automated, if so, how?

We use borschik , it can automatically “freeze” and inline images by mask in the desired format.