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Burns Sheehan Software Engineer Interview Questions

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ExecutionStart here. 11 questions · ~95 min
Design Microservices Architecture for E-Commerce PlatformMedium

Create a microservices architecture for an e-commerce platform within 12 weeks, balancing scalability and budget constraints.

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Balance Speed, Scope, and QualityHard

Describe how you handled a delivery trade-off between shipping fast, controlling scope, and maintaining quality.

Trade-offsRisk AssessmentScope ManagementBurns Sheehan
Design a Scalable ApplicationEasy

Explain how you would design a scalable application, including trade-offs, risks, stakeholder needs, and how you define success.

Trade-offsRisk AssessmentScope ManagementBurns Sheehan
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Behavioral & Leadership10 questions · ~87 min
Raising the Bar on Code QualityMedium

Tests ownership and leadership in improving maintainability, testability, and team coding practices in an engineering environment.

code qualityTestingpythonBurns Sheehan
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More topics4 questions · ~35 min
Optimizing SQL QueriesMedium

Tests SQL query optimization skills and ability to improve performance for faster data retrieval.

JoinsData WranglingAggregationsBurns Sheehan
Analyzing Time ComplexityEasy

Tests ability to reason about algorithm efficiency and describe complexity clearly.

ArraysSearchingSortingBurns Sheehan
Version Control Tools and RationaleEasy

Tests collaboration practices and understanding of version control workflows.

Stakeholder ManagementCommunicationOwnershipBurns Sheehan
Implement an Algorithm FunctionMedium
Practice

Implement stable merge sort to return an integer array in ascending order without using Python's built-in sorting.

coding challengeArraysSearchingBurns Sheehan

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