Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and how you got into software engineering?
- What project are you most proud of, and what was your role in it?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through the architecture of a system you built recently. What trade-offs did you make?
- How do you decide how much test coverage a feature needs before shipping it?
- Describe a production incident you debugged. How did you find the root cause?
- How do you approach code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback?
- What do you do when requirements are ambiguous or incomplete?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you disagreed with a teammate on a technical decision. How was it resolved?
- Describe a situation where you had to deliver under a tight deadline. What did you cut and why?
- How do you keep your skills current, and what have you learned recently?
Problem-solving / case
- A feature you shipped last week is causing intermittent errors for 2 percent of users. How do you investigate?
- You inherit a legacy codebase with no tests and a critical bug. What are your first steps?
- A product manager asks for an estimate on a feature you have never built before. How do you respond?
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