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Toptal Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 2 Aug 2022

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1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Have good communication skill

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be soft skilled and speak with lower tone

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Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (16 Questions)

  • Q1. What are custom hooks in React, and what are their use cases? Additionally, can you provide an example of a custom hook that performs an API call and utilizes t...read more
  • Q2. What is the difference between useMemo and useCallback in React?
  • Q3. What is the difference between class-based components and functional components in React?
  • Q4. How can you implement the lifecycle of a React component in a functional component?
  • Q5. What are the various state management techniques available in React?
  • Q6. What is the architecture of Redux, and what purposes do middlewares serve within it?
  • Q7. What is hoisting in JavaScript?
  • Q8. What is event bubbling in JavaScript?
  • Q9. What are block scope and function scope in JavaScript?
  • Q10. Have you had experience working with semantic tags in HTML?
  • Q11. What are the various methods for creating an object in JavaScript?
  • Q12. What are the differences between shallow copy and deep copy in JavaScript?
  • Q13. What will be the output of the following JavaScript code fragment: `const a; function test() { console.log(a); }; test();`?
  • Q14. How can you use CSS to arrange elements in a row and column layout?
  • Q15. Have you utilized CSS preprocessors, and if so, which ones?
  • Q16. If I have assigned different colors to an ID and a class and applied both to the same element, which color will be applied based on CSS specificity precedence?

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • Javascript
  • React.Js
  • HTML
  • CSS
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Possessing a deep understanding of JavaScript and React is essential. Interviewers may engage in mind games with candidates; therefore, we should remain calm and focused solely on the questions. Additionally, we need to be confident in our answers; otherwise, they may respond with doubt, asking, "Is that so?"

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 -
Result
Selected  Selected

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is the internal working of a hashmap?
  • Q2. Design a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are the SOLID principles in software engineering?
  • Q2. What design patterns have you worked with?
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

One coding test happen

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java questions, spring boot framework questions
  • Q2. DSA using stream api
3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java questions and spring boot questions
  • Q2. One program using stream api
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is Java and what is OOPS Concept
  • Q2. What is Selenium webdriver?
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. TestNG Annotation
  • Q2. Cucumber future file and step defination
3

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What's your last salary
  • Q2. What's your salary Expectation

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. More questions on interfaces
  • Q2. Comparator related questions
2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Stream api coding questins
  • Q2. Database questions
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Node.js question were asked
  • Q2. Project questions were also being asked
2

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. General Behavioural questions
  • Q2. Culture fit questions
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Simple task to fetch cart and display items in the cart
  • Q2. React hooks, life cycle methods, error boundaries, hoc
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Simple task to fetch characters and their movies
3

Cultural Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Culture based questions
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is Node.js event loop and how its work?
  • Q2. DBMS questions like joins
2

Coding Test Round

- Basic data structures questions.
- Node.js specific questions.

3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic managerial questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well for basics and know you job profile you are applying for knowing technology.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. On spring Cloud
  • Q2. Stream question
  • Q3. Asked on Java 8
  • Q4. Asked on SpringBoot
  • Q5. Asked on threads

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare for java Spring boot well.

Toptal Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Toptal Senior Software Engineer interview?
Toptal interview process usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the Toptal interview process are One-on-one Round.

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