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Senior Backend Interview Questions

The document outlines a set of senior backend interview questions categorized into general, technical, architecture, craft and practices, databases, distributed systems, observability and debugging, and problem-solving skills. It includes inquiries about personal projects, OOP principles, design patterns, database systems, scaling strategies, and debugging techniques. Additionally, it encourages candidates to demonstrate their coding skills and engage in a closing discussion.

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Senior Backend Interview Questions

The document outlines a set of senior backend interview questions categorized into general, technical, architecture, craft and practices, databases, distributed systems, observability and debugging, and problem-solving skills. It includes inquiries about personal projects, OOP principles, design patterns, database systems, scaling strategies, and debugging techniques. Additionally, it encourages candidates to demonstrate their coding skills and engage in a closing discussion.

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Senior Backend Interview Questions

General Questions
● Introduce yourself and tell us about some of the projects you are working on.
● Can you please briefly tell me about the process you follow starting from who
decides which features or updates should be done until it goes to production.

Technical Questions
OOP

● What is the difference between interfaces and abstract classes? And when to
use each one?
● Do you know the SOLID principles? Briefly explain each principle.
● What are some design patterns that you used at work? (Feel free to ask about
some main design patterns like: Factory, Builder, Adapter, Decorator,
Observer, etc)

Architecture

● What is the difference between monolithic and microservice applications? And


when do we use each one?

Craft and Practices

● How do you ensure the quality of your project in terms of writing clean code
and following good practices?
● Do you write tests for your code? What are the benefits of unit tests and
integration tests?

Databases

● Which database systems do you have experience with?


● When to use SQL and NoSQL databases?
● Do you know the ACID properties? Briefly explain each property.a

Basic Distributed Systems


● How would you scale your system (server and database) to handle more
load? Can you provide any example from your working exerience where you
needed to scale a specific service?

Observability and Debugging

● When you encounter a performance bottleneck in your system, how do you


debug it? (Example: A screen on the mobile app the keeps loading forever)
● If you discovered that the performance bottleneck was caused by your
database, how would you debug it to discover where the problem is?
● If you discovered that the problem is in a specific query, what would you do to
discover its problem?

Basic problem solving and collaboration skills

● Write a function that takes two integers and returns their multiplication but
without using the multiplication operator.

Solution: https://www.paste.org/126506

Closing
● Do you have any questions for us?
●

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