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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Belfast, United Kingdom

July 1, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online, then got invited to a technical interview on Zoom.

Asked about CV and experience, then a lot of screen sharing my coding IDE and working through various questions.

2 Stages: Technical interview, then interview with hiring manager

Questions

  • Tell us about yourself/CV overview.
  • Explain in detail what you do at your most recent role and explain the impact you had in the project.

LeetCode Style questions and screen share coding: 1: Write a function solution that, given a string S of length N, returns any palindrome which can be obtained by replacing all of the question marks in S with lowercase letters ('a'-'z'). If no palindrome can be obtained, the function should return -1.

2: Write a function solution that, given an array of positive integers A of length N, returns the sum of all numbers in the array where the first digit is equal to the last digit. For example, if A = [121, 34, 787, 22, 11], the function should return 132 because 121, 11 have matching first and last digits. The function should return 0 if no such numbers exist. If there are more than two numbers with matching first and last digits you should choose the two largest numbers to work with.

3: Explain and show us a code example of polymorphism, then extend this to show it works at runtime with dependency injection

4: Explain how multithreading works, write a coding example of it being used and how can we benchmark it, checking how many times a function has been called by a thread etc (Might've been multiprocessing but I forget)

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