General Full Stack Developer interview prep
2 live roles at FlixEnd-to-end web engineering — frontend, backend, databases and deployment — for startups and product teams that want one engineer to own a feature.
Typical Full Stack Developer interview rounds
- 1 Frontend round. JavaScript, React and UI fundamentals.
- 2 Backend round. API design, databases and server-side logic.
- 3 Full-stack machine coding. Build a small end-to-end feature (form → API → DB).
- 4 System design & deployment. Architecture, hosting, CI/CD and trade-offs.
Commonly-asked Full Stack Developer questions
- Walk me through what happens from a user clicking a button to data being saved in the database.
- How do you handle authentication and sessions in a full-stack app (JWT vs cookies)?
- Explain CORS and how you fix a CORS error.
- How do you structure a REST API for a CRUD application?
- What is the difference between client-side and server-side rendering?
- How do you prevent SQL injection and XSS in your app?
- Explain state management on the frontend — when do you reach for a library?
- How would you optimise a slow-loading web page end to end?