#interview

  • Interview Notes
    A curated list of interview experiences, resume advice, practice platforms, courses, and question banks for software engineering interviews.
  • Interview Preparation Checklist
    A short checklist of design principles, programming paradigms, and front-end APIs to review before a technical interview.
  • Top 10 System Design And Microservices Questions
    Ten common system design and microservices interview questions with hints on what to clarify and how to structure an answer.
  • Amazon SDE Interview
    A first-person account of an Amazon SDE-1 interview round, with the mistakes made and lessons on algorithms, system design, and Leadership Principles.
  • Fresher Backend Interview
    Questions from a fresher backend interview at a unicorn product company, covering Java, data structures, Firebase, networking, and concurrency.
  • Interview Senior Engineer
    A walkthrough of a senior software developer interview, covering English, coding, system design, project management, version control, refactoring, and adaptability.
  • IT Job Interview Notes
    Notes for interviewing at a Japanese-owned IT company, including a self-introduction outline, questions to ask HR and the team leader, and cultural observations.
  • Oracle Interview Gandhinagar
    A three-round Oracle interview experience in Gandhinagar, India, with the puzzles, Java, SQL, and string problems asked in each round.
  • Senior PHP JavaScript Interview
    Interview outline and technical questions for a Senior Software Engineer (PHP, JavaScript, Laravel 8+) role, plus tips on what interviewers expect.
  • Coding Interview Resources
    A curated list of books, online courses, practice websites, and mock interview platforms for studying algorithms and preparing for coding interviews.
  • Fresher Java Interview
    Two firsthand accounts of Fresher Java Backend Developer interviews at a fintech company and an outsourcing company, with the OOP, Java core, database, and Spring questions asked.
  • Interview Questions
    Common behavioral and background questions for junior or intern web developer interviews, with sample answers and questions to ask the company.
  • Laravel Interview Questions
    Short Q&A reference covering common Laravel interview topics such as CSRF, facades, service container, validation, Eloquent, and caching.
  • React Interview Questions
    A condensed Q&A list of the top 50 React interview questions covering components, props and state, virtual DOM, Redux, and build tools.
  • Salary Negotiation
    Practical advice on the mindset, timing, and tactics for negotiating salary during tech job interviews, from delaying the number to handling offers.
  • Vuejs Interview Questions
    An interview reference on Vue's KeepAlive component, covering what it does, why it helps, and where to use it.
  • Web Developer Interview Insights
    Notes from David Walsh's interview with a Pornhub web developer on development process, performance monitoring, video player work, tech stack, Web API pain points and team culture.
  • Task Scheduler System Design
    Walks through a system design interview for a task scheduler, covering requirements, scalability with message queues and priority queues, fault tolerance with retries and backoff, core components, and design trade-offs.
  • Top K Problem Heavy Hitters
    Compares solutions to the Top K heavy hitters problem at 10 billion views per day (Redis sorted sets, Count-Min Sketch, OLAP pipelines, batch jobs, SQL) and recommends a hybrid fast path plus slow path architecture.