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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

A logic question: in a room there are 3 lightbulbs; you are outside of the room and can't see inside; in front of you are 3 switches connected to the lightbulbs. What do you do to know which switch activates which lightbulb if you're only allowed in the room once? A technical question: you have 5 minutes to describe to me how to make a fuel level detection system for a tank. Here's a pen and some paper; describe it to me in any way you want using any terms you want. (he was looking to see if you're smart enough and think logically enough to design such a thing even if you don't really know anything about it beforehand)
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Software Developer

Interviewed at Continental

3.9★
Feb 20, 2017

A logic question: in a room there are 3 lightbulbs; you are outside of the room and can't see inside; in front of you are 3 switches connected to the lightbulbs. What do you do to know which switch activates which lightbulb if you're only allowed in the room once? A technical question: you have 5 minutes to describe to me how to make a fuel level detection system for a tank. Here's a pen and some paper; describe it to me in any way you want using any terms you want. (he was looking to see if you're smart enough and think logically enough to design such a thing even if you don't really know anything about it beforehand)

She ask a variety of question on MVVM, Struct vs Class, Serialization and deserialization, URLSession vs URLSessionTask, FlatMap vs Compact Map, . TE-2 questions- protocol based question, how to make protocol optional, some coding questions like based on struct like filter an array of struct based on some values, project based question.
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Software Engineer (Ios Developer)

Interviewed at NeoSOFT

3.6★
Dec 23, 2023

She ask a variety of question on MVVM, Struct vs Class, Serialization and deserialization, URLSession vs URLSessionTask, FlatMap vs Compact Map, . TE-2 questions- protocol based question, how to make protocol optional, some coding questions like based on struct like filter an array of struct based on some values, project based question.

Few questions about automated testing, eclipse, netbeans. Few questions about the projects I did. Fourier transforms etc. ANd also few technical questions from Java regarding strings, applets, containers etc. I was also asked few more questions regarding the subjects I took.
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Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at ABB

4★
Dec 5, 2015

Few questions about automated testing, eclipse, netbeans. Few questions about the projects I did. Fourier transforms etc. ANd also few technical questions from Java regarding strings, applets, containers etc. I was also asked few more questions regarding the subjects I took.

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