Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about your background and what kind of software you enjoy building most?
- What does a productive development day look like for you?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Tell us about a feature you took from ticket to production recently. What did the process look like?
- How do you get up to speed when you join a large, unfamiliar codebase?
- What is your approach to testing your own code before opening a pull request?
- Describe a bug that took you a long time to find. What made it hard, and what did you learn?
- When would you refactor existing code, and when would you leave it alone even if it looks messy?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you received tough feedback in a code review. How did you respond?
- Describe a situation where a requirement changed midway through a sprint. How did you handle it?
- How do you balance shipping quickly with keeping quality high?
Problem-solving / case
- A user reports that a page loads correctly for some accounts but crashes for others. Walk us through your debugging steps.
- You estimate a feature at three days, but on day two you discover it depends on a service another team owns. What do you do?
- Your team must integrate a third-party payment API with poor documentation by the end of the month. How do you de-risk the work?
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