Senior Software Development Engineer Interview Questions

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Common BQ about past experience. In one session there was a difficult coding problem, the interviewer did not give me a coding board with clarified problem, but explaining the problem to me orally then required me to open an IDE and share screen with him. Seems a bit unprofessional to me. In another session of system design, the interviewer was reluctant to give me more information when I asked to clarify some requirement/goal of the design
Jun 19, 2025

Common BQ about past experience. In one session there was a difficult coding problem, the interviewer did not give me a coding board with clarified problem, but explaining the problem to me orally then required me to open an IDE and share screen with him. Seems a bit unprofessional to me. In another session of system design, the interviewer was reluctant to give me more information when I asked to clarify some requirement/goal of the design

a process for a particular operation takes 10millisec, after some days it start taking 1 sec? what could be the reason? change in thread priority? , Cpu busy for other tasks? some other required device is responding slow? how to detect which code is causing the problem in currently running system.
Jul 28, 2018

a process for a particular operation takes 10millisec, after some days it start taking 1 sec? what could be the reason? change in thread priority? , Cpu busy for other tasks? some other required device is responding slow? how to detect which code is causing the problem in currently running system.

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