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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.

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one question was as under - "Symmetric Difference of Arrays" Input: two arrays of integers Output: one array of integers which occur in only one (not both) arrays Test case: Input: [ 1, 7, 8, 2, 4, 5 ] [ 3, 5, 1, 7, 6, 9 ] Output: [ 8, 2, 4, 3, 6, 9 ]
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Software Developer - (Willing to Learn Perl) - Amsterdam

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1★
Apr 15, 2014

one question was as under - "Symmetric Difference of Arrays" Input: two arrays of integers Output: one array of integers which occur in only one (not both) arrays Test case: Input: [ 1, 7, 8, 2, 4, 5 ] [ 3, 5, 1, 7, 6, 9 ] Output: [ 8, 2, 4, 3, 6, 9 ]

Your on a farm, and your in a field with horses and you have a fence that you have to repair. But you left your hammer back at the house, what do you do? Remember the fence is broken and you cannot leave it alone otherwise the horses will escape.
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Intermediate Software Developer

Interviewed at The PEER Group

3.9★
Mar 19, 2009

Your on a farm, and your in a field with horses and you have a fence that you have to repair. But you left your hammer back at the house, what do you do? Remember the fence is broken and you cannot leave it alone otherwise the horses will escape.

Interview date and Venue: The Marriott Hotel, Whitefield, Bangalore on 12 Sept 2015. First Round: Purely Technical (Mr Farhan, he was really nice guy with sound technical knowledge) 1) What is autoboxing and unboxing? 2) What is comparable and comparator? 3) What is @autowire in Spring? 4) What Hibernate and its configuration? 5) What transaction in hibernate? If with out calling save, I close transaction what will happen? 6) How to get value from name attribute in jquery? Also with class and id. 7) if you know anything about Javascript MVC, Angular JS, Node JS etc? 8) Why Spring is called loosely coupled? 9) what is DI or IOC in spring? Explain with example. 10) @transaction, @repository, @autowired annotation? 11) Types of autowiring in Spring. Second Round: Director's Round, Partially technical. (Mr. Sanjoy, Not so easy to convince him) 1) What is the thing which you have learned on your own in your career. I told Javascript and Jquery. 2) Write a javascript code to submit a simple form having username and password. (idk why he asked that!!) 3) When and why we should use ConcurrentHashmap and HashTable? 4) When should we use SOA and when we should avoid it? (SOA is my current technology I am working on). 5) What is current CTC, notice period and expected CTC. 6) Reason for job change. Why so early? Third round : Written 1) Write program or pseudo code to get first 2 largest and smallest number from an array of integers. 2) Give class hierarchy for Polygon, Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square, Circle and Pentagon. 3) Prepare a linked list having String and integer values and print only integer values out of it. 4) You have 6 identical balls, one of them is heavier. How many times will you use balance to pick out odd one? 5) You reach office from home at speed of 20 kmph and from office to home at 30 kmph. Calculate the avg speed. 6) You have 3 machines M1, M2 and M3, each of which takes 5 min to process one wooden pencil. The flow of processing is m1-->m2-->m3. Only one pencil is allowd at a time at one machine. You have 5 pencils. how long will it take to process all of them? If inc m2 by 7mins then how long will it take to process all? If also inc m1 by 6mins then how long will it take? 7) Select name, count(*) as count from tablename; write down the output. 8) difference between Unique key and primary key? 9) difference between function and stored procedure? 10) A simple join query of 4 tables to display a set of columns out out of them. 11) Write a not to client stating, convincing him the reason behind the delay in project delivery. After all of this I was told that they will reach out to me in next 5 days. Today was my interview, let's wait and watch ;)
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Talentica

4★
Sep 12, 2015

Interview date and Venue: The Marriott Hotel, Whitefield, Bangalore on 12 Sept 2015. First Round: Purely Technical (Mr Farhan, he was really nice guy with sound technical knowledge) 1) What is autoboxing and unboxing? 2) What is comparable and comparator? 3) What is @autowire in Spring? 4) What Hibernate and its configuration? 5) What transaction in hibernate? If with out calling save, I close transaction what will happen? 6) How to get value from name attribute in jquery? Also with class and id. 7) if you know anything about Javascript MVC, Angular JS, Node JS etc? 8) Why Spring is called loosely coupled? 9) what is DI or IOC in spring? Explain with example. 10) @transaction, @repository, @autowired annotation? 11) Types of autowiring in Spring. Second Round: Director's Round, Partially technical. (Mr. Sanjoy, Not so easy to convince him) 1) What is the thing which you have learned on your own in your career. I told Javascript and Jquery. 2) Write a javascript code to submit a simple form having username and password. (idk why he asked that!!) 3) When and why we should use ConcurrentHashmap and HashTable? 4) When should we use SOA and when we should avoid it? (SOA is my current technology I am working on). 5) What is current CTC, notice period and expected CTC. 6) Reason for job change. Why so early? Third round : Written 1) Write program or pseudo code to get first 2 largest and smallest number from an array of integers. 2) Give class hierarchy for Polygon, Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square, Circle and Pentagon. 3) Prepare a linked list having String and integer values and print only integer values out of it. 4) You have 6 identical balls, one of them is heavier. How many times will you use balance to pick out odd one? 5) You reach office from home at speed of 20 kmph and from office to home at 30 kmph. Calculate the avg speed. 6) You have 3 machines M1, M2 and M3, each of which takes 5 min to process one wooden pencil. The flow of processing is m1-->m2-->m3. Only one pencil is allowd at a time at one machine. You have 5 pencils. how long will it take to process all of them? If inc m2 by 7mins then how long will it take to process all? If also inc m1 by 6mins then how long will it take? 7) Select name, count(*) as count from tablename; write down the output. 8) difference between Unique key and primary key? 9) difference between function and stored procedure? 10) A simple join query of 4 tables to display a set of columns out out of them. 11) Write a not to client stating, convincing him the reason behind the delay in project delivery. After all of this I was told that they will reach out to me in next 5 days. Today was my interview, let's wait and watch ;)

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