Software Engineering Practices Topics
Covers industry-standard practices for building maintainable, high-quality software, including code quality, maintainability, documentation, and effective technical communication within engineering teams.
Problem Decomposition and Design Tradeoffs
Focuses on breaking complex products or systems into manageable components and asking clarifying questions that surface scale constraints success criteria and non functional requirements. Includes forming a stepwise plan to deliver iteratively identifying the smallest valuable scope to build testing important assumptions and balancing simplicity versus complexity and long term maintainability versus short term delivery. Interviewers test your ability to structure problems prioritize work and justify design trade offs with clear reasoning.
Iterative Problem Solving and Feedback
Evaluates how a candidate breaks larger algorithmic or implementation tasks into small, testable steps and incorporates feedback while coding. Candidates should describe an incremental implementation strategy, running tests or examples after each logical section, validating intermediate outputs, and progressively improving or refactoring code when new requirements or feedback arrive. Interviewers look for evidence of test driven thinking, modularization, risk aware trade offs between quick iteration and correctness, clear communication of intermediate assumptions, and a collaborative attitude toward feedback.