Programming Languages & Core Development Topics
Programming languages, development fundamentals, coding concepts, and core data structures. Includes syntax, algorithms, memory management at a programming level, asynchronous patterns, and concurrency primitives. Also covers core data manipulation concepts like hashing, collections, error handling, and DOM manipulation for web development. Excludes tool-specific proficiency (see 'Tools, Frameworks & Implementation Proficiency').
Hands-On Technical Problem Solving
Focus on practical engineering skills: writing correct and maintainable code in relevant languages, debugging and root cause analysis, performance profiling and optimization, algorithmic reasoning for real problems, test driven approaches, and pragmatic trade offs between correctness and delivery. Evaluations should examine candidate approaches to diagnosing production issues, reading telemetry, and iterating to robust solutions.
Coding and Algorithmic Problem Solving
Assesses the candidate ability to solve algorithmic and data structure problems and produce correct, efficient code. Candidates should demonstrate clarifying questions, example driven reasoning, selection of appropriate data structures, analysis of time and space complexity, handling of edge cases and error conditions, and provision of test cases. Interviewers evaluate step by step problem solving, trade off discussion between approaches, code readability, and the ability to optimize and refactor solutions while explaining changes clearly.