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Full-Stack Engineer interview questions
Assess a full-stack engineer's ability to ship features end to end and make sensible trade-offs across the stack.
11 questions across 4 stages.
Phone screen
- 1Tell me about a feature you built from database to UI.
- 2Where do you naturally gravitate — frontend or backend — and where do you stretch?
- 3How do you scope an ambiguous feature request into shippable work?
Technical
- 1How do you decide what logic belongs on the client vs. the server?
- 2Walk through how you'd model data and APIs for a commenting feature.
- 3How do you keep a full-stack codebase maintainable as it grows?
- 4What's your testing strategy across the stack?
Behavioral
- 1Describe a time you shipped something fast and had to clean it up later.
- 2How do you collaborate with PMs and designers on scope?
Situational
- 1A feature is half-built and priorities shift. How do you decide what to do with it?
- 2You're the only engineer on a feature with a tight deadline. How do you de-risk it?
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