Senior Backend Engineer Interview Questions

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Technical interview: - Check a merge request and go through your solution. - Design a system for mailing service. Behavioral: - Tell me about the time that you made someone feel welcome. - Tell me about the time that you worked in a team. - Blahblahblah.
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Backend Engineer/Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at GitLab

3.5
Sep 15, 2021

Technical interview: - Check a merge request and go through your solution. - Design a system for mailing service. Behavioral: - Tell me about the time that you made someone feel welcome. - Tell me about the time that you worked in a team. - Blahblahblah.

During the interview, I was asked to present a project I had worked on in my previous job and to sketch it. The interviewer asked follow-up questions about the rationale behind our decisions, such as why we chose a particular approach.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Gloat

3.5
Jul 16, 2025

During the interview, I was asked to present a project I had worked on in my previous job and to sketch it. The interviewer asked follow-up questions about the rationale behind our decisions, such as why we chose a particular approach.

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