Principal Software Engineer Interview Questions

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Asurion

3.3★

Oct 4, 2017

Why are you leaving your previous job ?

Principal FE React Developer

Interviewed at athenahealth

4.1★

Sep 4, 2020

Behavioral and past projects in detail

Principal FE React Developer

Interviewed at athenahealth

4.1★

Sep 4, 2020

Common Javascript and React - Objects, this, arrow, events, React lifecycle, function vs class, HOC, hooks

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at New Relic

3.5★

May 13, 2023

Leetcode medium problem …. Can’t disclose the problem owing to NDA

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Druva

3.9★

Oct 24, 2019

Round 1 - online test Write 3 code snippets in C++, few MCQs on DS, Networking, OS etc. to answer Round 2 - f2f 1> You are given a directed graph. Write code to find a node/vertex in it such that it can directly or indirectly reach all other nodes in the graph. 2> Explain any debug challenges you have faced in your current project, from crash dump in C++ to Java issues Round 3 - f2f 1> Explain the project - Do you know about FUSE filesystem 2> Design a directory walker using multi-threading 3> How can you find duplicates in a huge-stream of incoming objects

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at New Relic

3.5★

Nov 15, 2024

Design a hotel system design

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Druva

3.9★

Oct 26, 2019

Trees..

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2★

Jul 30, 2024

Mostly questions were from the presentation slides ,following with AI related projects and a coding problem

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Autodesk

4★

Feb 11, 2025

Tell me a difficult project you implemented?

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Autodesk

4★

Apr 3, 2025

L1 : Coding test for 15 mins, then technical questions L2. Design Whatsapp architecture? what is difference between oAuth 1.0 and oAuth 2.0? Explain Kafka etc.