Job Interview Tips for Software Engineers

Find out the most common questions that software engineers field in job interviews, and learn how to answer each one with specificity and confidence.

Introduction

• Overview of software engineering roles

1. Why do you want to work for our company?

• How to approach this question
• Candidate answer and feedback

2. What are the technical and management qualities you look for in engineering leaders or managers?

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• Candidate answer and feedback

3. Tell me about the most challenging technical problem you have solved.

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4. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a fellow engineer and how that issue was resolved.

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5. Tell me about a time when the industry and/or customers impacted your technical execution.

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6. How would you explain concepts like polymorphism and inheritance to a computer science student?

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7. Explain a web service infrastructure to a technical audience with limited system-level knowledge.

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8. How do you measure success for yourself technically?

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9. What would you do if asked to take on a problem where you did not have the technical skills?

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10. What do you think an ideal product-engineering relationship should look like?

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