S&P Global Software Engineer interview experience

I walked into questions that started with JavaScript event behavior—explaining how event propagation works, the difference between bubbling and capturing, and how you’d stop propagation with the appropriate method. It also pushed me toward practical reasoning like event delegation.

Then the focus shifted hard toward data and systems: I got asked about database query optimization, including indexing strategies and how you’d interpret an execution plan. From there, I had to talk through caching and other performance patterns like denormalization and partitioning/sharding. Production debugging