Senior Backend Engineer Interview Questions

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You are given an array with 0 and positive integers and a location index of a bird within the array. Bird has to go right and collect sticks (values which are not 0) and come back to its nest and sum. Then go left, then go right, until all sticks are collected. Return list of indexes with sticks Complexity: Medium

Senior Backend Developer

Interviewed at IBNQ

Aug 29, 2023

You are given an array with 0 and positive integers and a location index of a bird within the array. Bird has to go right and collect sticks (values which are not 0) and come back to its nest and sum. Then go left, then go right, until all sticks are collected. Return list of indexes with sticks Complexity: Medium

Coding challenge for "Design an application that, given a set of coordinates [(×1,y1), .., (xn, yn)]," to determine; 1. the two closest points between each other. 2. the two most distant points between each other For backend engineers: Diff. between PUT and PATCH? What is Discriminated Unions? Diff. between Coupling and Cohesion? Diff. DB replication and sharding? and related questions. Design and architecure related questions.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Elli – A Volkswagen Group brand

3.6
Jan 5, 2024

Coding challenge for "Design an application that, given a set of coordinates [(×1,y1), .., (xn, yn)]," to determine; 1. the two closest points between each other. 2. the two most distant points between each other For backend engineers: Diff. between PUT and PATCH? What is Discriminated Unions? Diff. between Coupling and Cohesion? Diff. DB replication and sharding? and related questions. Design and architecure related questions.

1 round will be shot spring boot project creation where we have to call on service and process the data and expose couples of service after massaging the data. 2 Face to face interview and they will ask design questions like design a building using OOPS feature. Few questions from micro services, agile methodology......
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Sr Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Mobiquity

4.1
Sep 21, 2021

1 round will be shot spring boot project creation where we have to call on service and process the data and expose couples of service after massaging the data. 2 Face to face interview and they will ask design questions like design a building using OOPS feature. Few questions from micro services, agile methodology......

User case test demands you to create a small API based on given documentation. They will evaluate your codebase in its entirety, not just whether your API is successful or not. Clean Code and Design Principles comes to mind.
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Senior Software Backend Engineer

Interviewed at JULO

3.6
Feb 14, 2022

User case test demands you to create a small API based on given documentation. They will evaluate your codebase in its entirety, not just whether your API is successful or not. Clean Code and Design Principles comes to mind.

Hr: 1- Describe a situation that you were to convinced other team members to do something. 2- Describe one of your projects that you proud of. Technical 1- Add one feature to a project and do merge request 2- Review someone else's merge request
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Quin (NL)

3.9
Jun 29, 2022

Hr: 1- Describe a situation that you were to convinced other team members to do something. 2- Describe one of your projects that you proud of. Technical 1- Add one feature to a project and do merge request 2- Review someone else's merge request

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