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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.

96,181 software developer interview questions shared by candidates

You need to a develop a text-editor. What is the data structure that you'll use to store the data. It should consume minimum possible memory, and should be able to support most of the basic functions of a text editor
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Tally Solutions

4.3★
Jun 9, 2012

You need to a develop a text-editor. What is the data structure that you'll use to store the data. It should consume minimum possible memory, and should be able to support most of the basic functions of a text editor

An airport employee checked a group of passengers through security on Thursday. On Friday, she checked three times as many passengers, and on Saturday she processed 5,000 passengers through security. In the 3 days, she processed 15,000 passengers. How many did she process on Friday?
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Reynolds and Reynolds

3.5★
Aug 9, 2017

An airport employee checked a group of passengers through security on Thursday. On Friday, she checked three times as many passengers, and on Saturday she processed 5,000 passengers through security. In the 3 days, she processed 15,000 passengers. How many did she process on Friday?

My interviewer focused on five or six key subjects (i.e. coding, performance, security, databases, data structures, etc.) and kept asking questions within each topic with incrementally more difficulty to see how deep my knowledge went in each area. I don't think this is the standard process, but it certainly left me thinking I didn't get the job until I got a call back. lol Overall, I thought it was a pretty effective process but I only conducted the occasional interview for D2L so I'm not %100 on what the "official" process is now (or if it is even standardised!)
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Software Developer

Interviewed at D2L

3.8★
Nov 27, 2019

My interviewer focused on five or six key subjects (i.e. coding, performance, security, databases, data structures, etc.) and kept asking questions within each topic with incrementally more difficulty to see how deep my knowledge went in each area. I don't think this is the standard process, but it certainly left me thinking I didn't get the job until I got a call back. lol Overall, I thought it was a pretty effective process but I only conducted the occasional interview for D2L so I'm not %100 on what the "official" process is now (or if it is even standardised!)

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