Software Engineer Principal Interview Questions

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

Dec 17, 2024

Behavioral round was generic. Four questions over 1 hour to be answered in the STAR format.

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Synergist Computing

5★

Jan 12, 2018

Discuss your experience with RESTful service frameworks. What are some of the beneficial features of Java 8? What are some common Enterprise Integration Patterns and how are they applied?

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Acerto

3.7★

Apr 14, 2025

System design de uma solução de busca de arquivos de fontes diversas, processamento desses arquivos e disponibilização dos dados para diversos sistemas

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tanium

4.1★

Mar 18, 2020

Describe a time where you took initiative in your job?

Principal Software Developer

Interviewed at Atlassian

3.2★

Nov 3, 2020

How do you solve a promise.any

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at GoDaddy

3.9★

Sep 21, 2022

Discussed with GoDaddy's new features.

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Calix

4.5★

Aug 21, 2016

Relevant project discussion - most of the on-site interview was over video bridge

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.5★

Mar 29, 2022

Asked basic questions about experience. Then asked a decently difficult algorithmic question.

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Atlassian

3.2★

Jul 18, 2025

Design a system for adding hashtag-style annotations to multiple existing (legacy) document systems. For example, annotate a document in system A and a video in system B with the same tag. Be able to show information about both items when someone searches for that tag.