Most Commonly Asked Questions for Software Engineering Jobs

Software Engineering Skills
1.What is Object Oriented Design?
2.What are the benefits and drawbacks?
3.What is the difference between Int32 and Int 64?
4.What is Table Normalization? What is the Agile software philosophy?
5.What is the Lean software philosophy?
6.What are the benefits of Dependency Injection?
7.What books have you read on software engineering that you thought were good?
8.What are the really important aspects of software development?
9.Tell me about your philosophy of database design. Database tools?
10.What are important aspects of GUI design?
11.What Object Relational Mapping tools have you used?
12.Tell me about the Model-View-Controller pattern and why it's important?
13.What is Test Driven Development and Design? Why is it important?
14.Describe some of the software patterns you have used?
15.How do you design scalable applications?
16.What is continuous integration?
17.What is the REST architecture pattern?
18.How would you design a solution to the following problem....

General
1.What software have you used for bug tracking and version control?
2.What do you use for unit testing? GUI testing?
3.Describe an interesting class you have designed.
4.Have you been doing code reviews? What was the format?
5.When and how do you optimize code?
6.Describe your favorite build environment.
7.Tell me about HTTP?
8.What is Service Oriented Architecture?
9.Advantages and Disadvantages?
10.What JavaScript libraries have you used?
11.What is the advantage of using CSS?
12.What are some of the irritating limitations of CSS?
13.Passion for Software Development What are some influential software books you've read lately?
14.What are your favorite technical web sites and blogs?
15.Are you doing any interesting personal web projects?
16.What do you like about software?

Brixton Ray Villanueva
Junior Software Engineer
Programming Pool Team Member
Interprise Software International
Taylor Science and Technology Philippines Inc.