General Software Engineer interview prep
2 live roles at Sensory Grid Private LimitedCoding, data structures, algorithms and system design — the core software engineering loop used by product companies and startups across India.
Typical Software Engineer interview rounds
- 01
Online assessment
Timed coding problems on arrays, strings and hashing on HackerRank or HackerEarth.
- 02
DSA / problem solving
1–2 live coding rounds on data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- 03
System design
Designing a scalable service (mid/senior); low-level design for early-career.
- 04
Hiring manager / culture fit
Past projects, ownership, behavioural questions and team fit.
Commonly asked Software Engineer questions
- Reverse a linked list, both iteratively and recursively.
- Find the two numbers in an array that add up to a target sum.
- Detect whether a linked list has a cycle.
- What is the difference between a process and a thread?
- Explain time and space complexity (Big O) with examples.
- How does a hash map work internally, and what happens on collisions?
- Find the longest substring without repeating characters.
- What is the difference between an array and a linked list?