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Software development is an in-demand career path, and it's also a job that can provide opportunities for high earnings and professional fulfillment. When interviewing for software developer positions, you'll likely face questions about your hard and soft skills and how you manage projects efficiently.

Top Software Developer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: What type of software development do you currently do?

How to answer
How to answer: When answering a question about your current software development projects, emphasize the coding languages and technology stack that you use. This question helps an interviewer determine if you have the skills needed to handle the workload.
Question 2

Question #2: Describe a development issue you faced and how you solved it.

How to answer
How to answer: Talking about a specific situation allows you to describe your problem-solving methods and the actions you took to resolve the problem. Use the STAR method (situation, task, action, result) to provide a clear picture of the problem you faced in development and what you did to fix it.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you handle the QA process?

How to answer
How to answer: Quality assurance is an important aspect of software development, and the process may fall on the developers in a smaller organization that doesn't have a designated QA team. If you face a question about the QA process, the interviewer may be trying to determine whether you would be willing and able to take on testing and bug fixing as part of the role.

96,299 software developer interview questions shared by candidates

1st Round : Basic aptitude questions(calendar,work & time,speed,distance,SI,CI etc). 2nd Round : 2 programming questions(1st -->A string of number is given and you have to find minimum sum after putting + sign in between the two numbers which you got after dividing the string in two parts, 2nd -->program to count minimum no. of steps to convert an array consisting 0 at each index to a given array i.e. a[]={0,0,0,0,0} to b[]={2,5,9,1,0} ,you can use only 2 functions i.e. 1)either use addOne() function to add 1 to particular index . 2).double() function which multiplies each index value by 2) Hint: use geeks for geeks. 3rd Round: Two interviewer are there.My interview was like. Questions on Binary tree(program to check whether 2 BST are equal or not ,tree traversal etc.),program to print first three small numbers from an array,program to print the first smallest alphabet which is not repeated in a given string.Lastly some logical puzzles like ,you have 5 & 3 Litres of jug and you have to measure 4 litres by using 9.5Litres of water available in an unknown capacity. Another puzzle like write a program to climb stairs(Having N steps to cover) within a given number of steps(let it be M) and you can take certain number of steps together (let is be P). 4th Round: Simple introduction ,your family members info she will ask ,then policies ,package,bond etc.
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Software Developer(Trainee)

Interviewed at Finoit

3.9★
May 5, 2017

1st Round : Basic aptitude questions(calendar,work & time,speed,distance,SI,CI etc). 2nd Round : 2 programming questions(1st -->A string of number is given and you have to find minimum sum after putting + sign in between the two numbers which you got after dividing the string in two parts, 2nd -->program to count minimum no. of steps to convert an array consisting 0 at each index to a given array i.e. a[]={0,0,0,0,0} to b[]={2,5,9,1,0} ,you can use only 2 functions i.e. 1)either use addOne() function to add 1 to particular index . 2).double() function which multiplies each index value by 2) Hint: use geeks for geeks. 3rd Round: Two interviewer are there.My interview was like. Questions on Binary tree(program to check whether 2 BST are equal or not ,tree traversal etc.),program to print first three small numbers from an array,program to print the first smallest alphabet which is not repeated in a given string.Lastly some logical puzzles like ,you have 5 & 3 Litres of jug and you have to measure 4 litres by using 9.5Litres of water available in an unknown capacity. Another puzzle like write a program to climb stairs(Having N steps to cover) within a given number of steps(let it be M) and you can take certain number of steps together (let is be P). 4th Round: Simple introduction ,your family members info she will ask ,then policies ,package,bond etc.

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