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Software Developer Mock Interview

To help you prepare for your Software Developer interview, here are 30 interview questions and answer examples.

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Can you describe a challenging software development project you recently completed and the results?

Ideally, you have encountered some of the same challenges that the organization has during your software developer experience. The interviewer hopes to confirm this. It demonstrates that you will address the challenges and problems they encounter and help them resolve them quickly. Organizations hire people to either fill a vacant role or expand their team. In either case, they expect the candidate to bring a fresh perspective to the organization and skills, experience, and knowledge they currently don't have on their team. Your answer to this and all the questions they ask should affirm this.

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30 Software Developer Interview Questions & Answers

Below is a list of our Software Developer interview questions. Click on any interview question to view our answer advice and answer examples. You may view six answer examples before our paywall loads. Afterwards, you'll be asked to upgrade to view the rest of our answers.

  • General

    1. Can you describe a challenging software development project you recently completed and the results?

  • General

    2. What are some of the types of development projects you have worked on in your past positions?

  • General

    3. I've heard applications referred to as both software and programs. Which terminology do you use, and how do these differ?

  • Operational

    4. How would you define software configuration management?

  • Operational

    5. What is software scope, and what does the process involve?

  • Operational

    6. Do you have a preferred language that you like to write programming algorithms?

  • Operational

    7. What is your opinion on a feasibility study, and when should it be done?

  • Operational

    8. As part of software development, were you involved with working on functional and non-functional requirements?

  • Operational

    9. Making a comparison, how would you differentiate between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

  • Operational

    10. What software development process do you prefer to use?

  • Operational

    11. What are some of the software design patterns that you use, and in what situations do you use them?

  • Operational

    12. Are you familiar with Agile and Waterfall? Which of these software development methodologies do you prefer?

  • Operational

    13. What are some of the QA processes you are familiar with and have worked with in the past?

  • Operational

    14. What are some of the testing and debugging processes you use in your software development?

  • Technical

    15. Talk about the differences between structured English and Pseudo Code?

  • Technical

    16. Explain how duplicates are removed from an array without using a library?

  • Technical

    17. How much do you know about object-oriented programming?

  • Technical

    18. As a software developer, explain the meaning of debugging, and why it's used?

  • Technical

    19. What is verification and validation, and why it is important?

  • Technical

    20. Describe at a high level what the software development life cycle process is.

  • Technical

    21. Can you list for me the important categories of software development?

  • Technical

    22. Tell me the difference between a Comparison and Non-Comparison Sorting Algorithm?

  • Technical

    23. Describe how do you implement an insertion sort algorithm, and what's the easiest way to do it?

  • Technical

    24. Can you walk me through the meaning behind a Depth First Search Algorithm for a binary tree?

  • Technical

    25. What is your experience with implementing a Binary Search Algorithm without recursion?

  • Technical

    26. How do you approach implementing an LRU Cache in your favorite programming language?

  • Technical

    27. Based on your experience, what's the best way to find a node that begins with two single link lists?

  • Technical

    28. How do you find the starting node of a cycle if a link contains a cycle?

  • Technical

    29. Tell me how you find duplicate numbers in an array in Java containing multiple duplicates?

  • Technical

    30. What method do you use to find the missing number in an integer array of 1 to 100?