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Software Developer Interview Questions

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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Implement a function all_anagram_groups() that, given many input strings, will identify and group words that are anagrams of each other. An anagram is word that is just a re-arrangement of the characters of another word, like "reap" and "pear" and "a per" (whitespace is ignored). But "pear" and "rep" are not, since "rep" does not have an "a". Also, "the" and "thee" are not anagrams, because "the" only has one "e". Given this example input: [ "pear","dirty room","amleth","reap","tinsel","hamlet","dormitory","listen","silent" ] The output should be an array-of-arrays (or list-of-lists) [ ["pear","reap"], ["dirty room","dormitory"], ["amleth","hamlet"], ["tinsel","listen","silent"] ]
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Software Developer - (Willing to Learn Perl)

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Aug 25, 2014

Implement a function all_anagram_groups() that, given many input strings, will identify and group words that are anagrams of each other. An anagram is word that is just a re-arrangement of the characters of another word, like "reap" and "pear" and "a per" (whitespace is ignored). But "pear" and "rep" are not, since "rep" does not have an "a". Also, "the" and "thee" are not anagrams, because "the" only has one "e". Given this example input: [ "pear","dirty room","amleth","reap","tinsel","hamlet","dormitory","listen","silent" ] The output should be an array-of-arrays (or list-of-lists) [ ["pear","reap"], ["dirty room","dormitory"], ["amleth","hamlet"], ["tinsel","listen","silent"] ]

Implement a function nondecreasing_subsequences() that, given a sequence of numbers such as: [ 3,6,61,6,7,9,1,7,7,2,7,7,2,388,3,72,7 ] ... will identify and return each contiguous sub-sequence of non-decreasing numbers. E.g. this example input should return this array-of-arrays (e.g. or list-of-lists) [ [3,6,61],[6,7,9],[1,7,7],[2,7,7],[2,388],[3,72],[7] ] (Each array includes a sequence of numbers that do not get smaller. The original order is unchanged.) For a visual example of a non-decreasing, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monotonicity_example1.png
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Software Developer - (Willing to Learn Perl)

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Aug 25, 2014

Implement a function nondecreasing_subsequences() that, given a sequence of numbers such as: [ 3,6,61,6,7,9,1,7,7,2,7,7,2,388,3,72,7 ] ... will identify and return each contiguous sub-sequence of non-decreasing numbers. E.g. this example input should return this array-of-arrays (e.g. or list-of-lists) [ [3,6,61],[6,7,9],[1,7,7],[2,7,7],[2,388],[3,72],[7] ] (Each array includes a sequence of numbers that do not get smaller. The original order is unchanged.) For a visual example of a non-decreasing, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monotonicity_example1.png

/* You have rating (0-10) of the hotels per user in this format: scores = [ {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 501, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 502, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 503, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 504, 'score': 10}, {'hotel_id': 3001, 'user_id': 505, 'score': 5}, {'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 506, 'score': 5} ] Any given hotel might have more than one score. Implement a function, get_hotels(scores, min_avg_score) that returns a list of hotel ids that have average score equal to or higher than min_avg_score. get_hotels(scores, 5) -> [1001, 2001, 3001] get_hotels(scores, 7) -> [1001, 2001] */
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Jul 5, 2016

/* You have rating (0-10) of the hotels per user in this format: scores = [ {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 501, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 502, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 1001, 'user_id': 503, 'score': 7}, {'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 504, 'score': 10}, {'hotel_id': 3001, 'user_id': 505, 'score': 5}, {'hotel_id': 2001, 'user_id': 506, 'score': 5} ] Any given hotel might have more than one score. Implement a function, get_hotels(scores, min_avg_score) that returns a list of hotel ids that have average score equal to or higher than min_avg_score. get_hotels(scores, 5) -> [1001, 2001, 3001] get_hotels(scores, 7) -> [1001, 2001] */

1. Started with a HackerRank - session 5 questions - 90 mins, not very hard After that 6 rounds of interview: 2. HR round - to understand interest level, work experience and knowledge about Booking.com 3. Technical round - pair programming on a shared code-collaborator environment, 2 programming questions (basic array and hash questions) Invited to Amsterdam - for face to face interview 4. HR round - for answering any questions, salary discussions etc. 5. Technical round - design graphite from scratch, evolved designed system to handle scaling scenarios 6. Technical round - 2 problems - a. retweet twitter tweets if newer one is an anagram of older one, b. 20 boxes - 500 GB log files on each - no processing box on server file, aggregate data on one box and parse for phone numbers - bookings. Efficiently. 7. Technical and Culture fit round: Discussed various scenarios encountered during work and how will be your behavior on them 8. HR round - offer ! - Offer very low pay, considering high cost of living NL - Amsterdam declined the offer
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Oct 8, 2015

1. Started with a HackerRank - session 5 questions - 90 mins, not very hard After that 6 rounds of interview: 2. HR round - to understand interest level, work experience and knowledge about Booking.com 3. Technical round - pair programming on a shared code-collaborator environment, 2 programming questions (basic array and hash questions) Invited to Amsterdam - for face to face interview 4. HR round - for answering any questions, salary discussions etc. 5. Technical round - design graphite from scratch, evolved designed system to handle scaling scenarios 6. Technical round - 2 problems - a. retweet twitter tweets if newer one is an anagram of older one, b. 20 boxes - 500 GB log files on each - no processing box on server file, aggregate data on one box and parse for phone numbers - bookings. Efficiently. 7. Technical and Culture fit round: Discussed various scenarios encountered during work and how will be your behavior on them 8. HR round - offer ! - Offer very low pay, considering high cost of living NL - Amsterdam declined the offer

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