IT job interview is considered to be the most demanding interview in comparison to other field’s interview. IT professionals are also the highly paid individual in job market in the current scenario. Companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft look for employees with proper talent and so getting chosen for a prime position in these firms is quite difficult. Many engineers go through extensive coding exercise to get these jobs.
Thus, to helps software programmers in their preparation for IT interviews, Paysa has compiled a list of 33 common software engineering interview questions that can be asked by most tech companies.
- The First Conversation: The first conversation with recruiter is all about convincing them that you’re worth it to talk to an actual engineer.
- Why are you interested in working at ‘XYZ Company’?
- Do you have experience with a certain coding language/technology we use here at XYZ Company?
- What projects have you been focused on at your current job?
- Do you have any leadership experience?
- If so, how big was your team and what projects did you work on?
- What are you looking for in an opportunity that would lure you away from your current employer?
- Panel Interview: Panel interview with the actual engineering team is when the interviewers sit and ask to learn about you and your experiences. They also make sure if your personality fits in the culture of the organization. The question tips for the same are:
- What excites you about joining our team here?
- What are your hobbies outside of work?
- What do you love about your current job and work environment?
- Describe your ideal company culture.
- What’s the most important part of your work environment that will ensure you’re successful?
- How would co-workers describe the role you play on the team?
- Tell us a decision you made based on internal or external customer feedback.
- Which tools do you like to use for keeping track of requirements?
- What’s most important when reviewing another team member’s code?
- Describe your coding process from start to finish.
- How do you prepare your code for different kinds of errors?
- What’s your preferred language for complex algorithms?
- How do you design scalable applications?
- What project are you most proud of in your career thus far? Why?
- Describe a project that failed. What happened? How did you rebound?
- What is the difference between a mutex and a semaphore?
- What is multithreaded programming?
- What is the difference between local and global variables?
- What’s the difference between local and global variables?
- You have a single-threaded, C standard application that’s continuously crashing, but never in the same place. What could be causing the crash?
- What is the difference between a queue and a stack?
- What is a regression test?
- Interview with Coding Session: Many companies can ask the individual for doing some basic coding. This can be either in the second interview or in the final interview. Some of the questions that one can face are:
- Big-O complexity analysis: What is it and how is it used?
- Trees: Basic construction, traversal, and manipulation algorithms. Know how to implement balanced binary trees.
- Stacks (implement a queue with two stacks)
- Arrays and strings (reverse strings, permutations)
