Software Engineer/Developer Interview Preparation (SDE) - ENG

Software Engineer/Developer Interview Preparation (SDE) - ENG

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Course Description & Syllabus

Module 1 — Programming Fundamentals Algorithms, data structures, complexity, debugging

Module 2 — OOP Class, object, abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, SOLID

Module 3 — Database SQL, joins, normalization, indexing, transactions, ACID

Module 4 — Web & API HTTP, REST, JSON, status codes, authentication, JWT, CORS

Module 5 — Git & SDLC Git, GitHub, Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, code review

Module 6 — Security SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF, hashing, encryption

Module 7 — Basic System Design Scalability, caching, load balancing, database choice

Module 8 — Behavioral + Project Self-introduction, project explanation, problem-solving situations

🔥 1. Programming & Problem Solving

● What is a programming language?

● Compiler vs Interpreter

● What is an algorithm?

● What is a data structure?

● Array vs Linked List

● Stack vs Queue

● What is a Hash Table?

● What is recursion?

● What is time complexity?

● What is Big O notation?

● How do you optimize a slow program?

● How do you debug a program?

🔥 2. OOP Concepts

● What is OOP?

● What are the 4 pillars of OOP?

● Encapsulation vs Abstraction

● Inheritance

● Polymorphism

● Overloading vs Overriding

● Class vs Object

● Interface vs Abstract Class

● Composition vs Inheritance

● What are SOLID principles?

🔥 3. Database & SQL

● What is a database?

● SQL vs NoSQL

● Primary Key vs Foreign Key

● What is normalization?

● What is an index?

● What are JOINs?

● INNER JOIN vs LEFT JOIN

● WHERE vs HAVING

● GROUP BY

● DELETE vs TRUNCATE vs DROP

● What is a transaction?

● What is ACID?

● What is a stored procedure?

● How do you optimize a slow query?

🔥 4. Web & API Fundamentals

● What happens when you enter a URL in a browser?

● What is HTTP?

● HTTP vs HTTPS

● GET vs POST

● PUT vs PATCH

● What is REST API?

● What is JSON?

● What are HTTP status codes?

● Authentication vs Authorization

● Session vs Cookies

● What is JWT?

● What is CORS?

● What is an API?

● REST vs SOAP

🔥 5. Git & Development Practices

● What is Git?

● Git vs GitHub

● git clone

● git pull vs git fetch

● git merge vs git rebase

● What is a branch?

● What is a merge conflict?

● How do you resolve a merge conflict?

● What is a pull request?

● Why do we use version control?

🔥 6. Software Engineering

● SDLC entha?

● Agile vs Waterfall

● What is Scrum?

● What is a sprint?

● What is a requirement?

● Functional vs Non-functional requirements

● What is unit testing?

● Integration testing vs unit testing

● What is code review?

● What is technical debt?

● What is CI/CD?

● What is debugging?

● Development → Testing → Production flow explain cheyyuka.

🔥 7. System Design — Basic Level

● How would you design a simple login system?

● How would you design an online shopping application?

● How would you design a URL shortener?

● How would you design a notification system?

● What happens when 10,000 users access an application simultaneously?

● What is scalability?

● Vertical vs Horizontal scaling

● What is caching?

● What is load balancing?

● SQL vs NoSQL — when would you choose each?

🔥 8. Security Basics

● What is SQL Injection?

● How do you prevent SQL Injection?

● What is XSS?

● What is CSRF?

● Authentication vs Authorization

● Why should passwords not be stored as plain text?

● What is hashing?

● What is encryption?

● What is HTTPS?

🔥 9. Debugging / Real-world Questions

● "Your application is very slow. How will you find the problem?"

● "The API is returning 500. What will you check?"

● "The database query takes 10 seconds. What will you do?"

● "A feature works on your machine but not in production. What could be the reason?"

● "Users report that they are randomly getting logged out. How would you investigate?"

● "Your application crashes after handling many requests. How would you debug it?"

🔥 10. Behavioral / HR + Technical

● Tell me about yourself.

● Explain your final-year/project work.

● What was your role in the project?

● What was the biggest challenge you faced?

● How did you solve it?

● Tell me about a bug you fixed.

● Tell me about a technical mistake you made.

● How do you learn a new technology?

● How do you handle deadlines?

● How do you handle disagreement with a teammate?

● How do you prioritize tasks?

● Why should we hire you?

● Why do you want this role?

● Where do you see yourself in 3–5 years?