Senior Backend Engineer Interview Questions

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1. Initial call 2. 3 to 4hr long take home 3. 45min review call with CTO 4. 2hr long culture fit (? I didn't get to this stage). The take home is to build a concurrent FastAPI app, which integrates with 2 clients. They're looking for concurrency.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Photoroom

4.6
Mar 28, 2025

1. Initial call 2. 3 to 4hr long take home 3. 45min review call with CTO 4. 2hr long culture fit (? I didn't get to this stage). The take home is to build a concurrent FastAPI app, which integrates with 2 clients. They're looking for concurrency.

1. How many words are there in string 2. Array with positive and negative numbers. Return subarray with biggest sum 3. Print all numbers - 1000 digits of 0s to 1000 digits of 9s 4. Array that implements get, set, setAll in O(1) 5. Design of one of the features that I developed
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at HCLTech

3.5
Sep 5, 2023

1. How many words are there in string 2. Array with positive and negative numbers. Return subarray with biggest sum 3. Print all numbers - 1000 digits of 0s to 1000 digits of 9s 4. Array that implements get, set, setAll in O(1) 5. Design of one of the features that I developed

R1: There were 3 question, (2 Medium + 1 Hard) - Q1: Graph + BFS - Q2: https://leetcode.com/problems/mirror-reflection/description/ - Q3: DP R2: Design a resume parser and resume bank where user can search for keywords among the datastore of resumes. R3: Foundational CS concepts + Some discussion around Kafka & SQS + SAGA Patterns + previous projects
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at VMock

2.9
Jul 6, 2025

R1: There were 3 question, (2 Medium + 1 Hard) - Q1: Graph + BFS - Q2: https://leetcode.com/problems/mirror-reflection/description/ - Q3: DP R2: Design a resume parser and resume bank where user can search for keywords among the datastore of resumes. R3: Foundational CS concepts + Some discussion around Kafka & SQS + SAGA Patterns + previous projects

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