Lead Backend Developer Interview Questions

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Coding interview is not organised. Got some class to implement with no documentation and misleading class names. The interviewer didn't explain anything before starting the test, leaving the candidate to guess what names mean. Not enough time to both understand what they want and implement the class.
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Lead Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Personio

3.3
Mar 25, 2024

Coding interview is not organised. Got some class to implement with no documentation and misleading class names. The interviewer didn't explain anything before starting the test, leaving the candidate to guess what names mean. Not enough time to both understand what they want and implement the class.

- Tell us in three sentences what excites you about working with komoot. - Tell us briefly why you think this is the right role for you. - Which companies do you have experience leading a team in and what were the team sizes? - How many years of experience with leading a team do you have? - How many years of experience with backend development do you have? - Describe a complex technical challenge you faced as a team lead and how you approached solving it. What made it difficult, how did you prepare for it, how did you solve it, and what would you do differently today? - In your view, what’s essential for building a high-performing backend engineering team? - Open the URL https://gist.github.com/christophlingg/2535269175735d82db169352589cbce7/raw to see a JSON API description. What would you change about the API?
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Backend Team Lead

Interviewed at komoot

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Feb 13, 2025

- Tell us in three sentences what excites you about working with komoot. - Tell us briefly why you think this is the right role for you. - Which companies do you have experience leading a team in and what were the team sizes? - How many years of experience with leading a team do you have? - How many years of experience with backend development do you have? - Describe a complex technical challenge you faced as a team lead and how you approached solving it. What made it difficult, how did you prepare for it, how did you solve it, and what would you do differently today? - In your view, what’s essential for building a high-performing backend engineering team? - Open the URL https://gist.github.com/christophlingg/2535269175735d82db169352589cbce7/raw to see a JSON API description. What would you change about the API?

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