Company Technical and Cultural Alignment Questions

Demonstrate a clear understanding of the company or team by describing their technical challenges, product strategy, infrastructure priorities, and engineering values. Explain how your past experience, technical choices, and working style map to the company needs and culture. This includes proposing concrete approaches to the companys specific problems, describing how you would prioritize work, and showing alignment with engineering principles and values such as ownership, quality, collaboration, and operational excellence. Answers should connect the candidate's skills, projects, and decision making to the organization and articulate why the role and environment are a good fit.

EasyTechnical

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On your first 30, 60, and 90 days at a new company you are expected to ship a small feature and learn the codebase. Describe a detailed 30-60-90 plan that covers learning architecture, getting a dev environment up, choosing and scoping a starter feature, communicating with stakeholders, and delivering with high quality while demonstrating ownership.

EasyBehavioral

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How do you evaluate an engineering organization for long-term career fit? Describe positive signals and red flags you look for in the company's technical strategy, roadmap transparency, leadership behavior, and engineering culture. Provide examples from your past experience where these signals influenced your decision to join or leave a team.

HardTechnical

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How would you codify engineering design principles for a growing team (for example: simplicity, ownership, testability, observability)? For each principle provide measurable behaviors, examples that could be added to code-review guidance, and suggestions for how those principles would influence hiring and promotion criteria.

EasyTechnical

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A company operates a single-region monolith that experiences deploy-related outages and scaling pain at traffic peaks. As a software engineer joining the team, propose a prioritized set of short-term (30 days) and medium-term (3-6 months) technical actions to improve reliability and scalability while minimizing customer impact and team disruption.

MediumTechnical

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Design improvements for an on-call program where P0 incidents are common and mean time to resolution (MTTR) is high. Detail proposed changes to runbooks, alert thresholds, escalation paths, on-call rotations, tooling, and post-incident follow-up practices to reduce MTTR and incident recurrence.

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