Software Engineer Graduate Interview Questions

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Do you know what an API is? Whats the difference between statically and dynamically typed programming language? Name a time you had to give difficult feedback to a member of your team? Name someone who has been influential in your life? Name a time when you missed a deadline and how did you handle it?
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Thriva

4.1
Jun 23, 2022

Do you know what an API is? Whats the difference between statically and dynamically typed programming language? Name a time you had to give difficult feedback to a member of your team? Name someone who has been influential in your life? Name a time when you missed a deadline and how did you handle it?

What is your current understanding of NAGRA and what we do? What attracts you to this role? Why do you love working with technology? What piece of work, or technology are you most proud of working on? What motivates you? Can you motivate yourself? How? If you could learn any tools/technology, what would you like to learn? If you could build a piece of software to do anything you want it to do - what would you want it to do? Tell me about a time you made a wrong decision. What did you learn from it? Tell us something interesting about you that’s not on your CV? What do you do to stay up to date in your profession/ field of study? What work experience have you had that you think could be relevant to your application? Why should we give you this opportunity as Graduate Software Engineer to you?
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Nagravision

3.5
Jun 26, 2022

What is your current understanding of NAGRA and what we do? What attracts you to this role? Why do you love working with technology? What piece of work, or technology are you most proud of working on? What motivates you? Can you motivate yourself? How? If you could learn any tools/technology, what would you like to learn? If you could build a piece of software to do anything you want it to do - what would you want it to do? Tell me about a time you made a wrong decision. What did you learn from it? Tell us something interesting about you that’s not on your CV? What do you do to stay up to date in your profession/ field of study? What work experience have you had that you think could be relevant to your application? Why should we give you this opportunity as Graduate Software Engineer to you?

Basics about python and its libraries (pandas, numpy), Then about my previous internship and then about my projects. behavioral questions etc. But very long process due to so many applicants. Got result after 1 month.
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Aspire Technology

4.1
Jul 31, 2023

Basics about python and its libraries (pandas, numpy), Then about my previous internship and then about my projects. behavioral questions etc. But very long process due to so many applicants. Got result after 1 month.

The second long form question - step tracing through a program - is a challenge as the time allotted is limited and there are multiple variables to keep track of. While not conceptually hard to understand, it does require a thorough process of jotting every execution step down, in case you need to backtrace an error in case your output doesn't match at the given checkpoint values.
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Graduate Software Engineer

Interviewed at Metaswitch

4
Jun 13, 2013

The second long form question - step tracing through a program - is a challenge as the time allotted is limited and there are multiple variables to keep track of. While not conceptually hard to understand, it does require a thorough process of jotting every execution step down, in case you need to backtrace an error in case your output doesn't match at the given checkpoint values.

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