They asked about my experience in the field.
Principal Software Engineer Interview Questions
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System design, leetcode medium, resume deep dive
Question related to current project and how to scale it. Some questions were related to JWT authentication.
voting system and rate limit
Tagging files and find top N tags
Solve a variant of the Knapsack problem
The questions were easy for a principal position, mostly from leet code easy/medium questions. You can find the questions in other reviews.
Recruitment staff are really helpful planning for these questions. Values alignment - which of their values do you feel you align with most, and why. Needs prep to think of actual experiences you can share that illustrate it. Another question is 'what has gone wrong in one of your past experiences, and why' - really helpful to discuss what you've learnt from past experiences.
Describe in as much detail as possible what happens when a user loads a web page.
Experience for about the last 5 years and then right into the coding exercise.
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