🚀 Introduction
Preparing for an interview can be overwhelming, but with the right strategies, you can showcase
your skills and experience effectively. This document provides essential tips and tricks to help
you navigate different types of interviews and you'll find general advice, role-specific guidance,
and key questions to ask to ensure you're well-prepared and confident.
🎤 General Interview Tips
🏆 Answering Questions About Your Project
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✅ Focus on the value your product brings to the world.
✅ Share interesting cases from past experiences.
✅ Discuss ideas for improvement and innovation.
✅ Be prepared to describe cases where you showed proactiveness, ownership, and
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✅ Talk about how you figured things out on your own.
self-motivation.
🛠 Technical Interview Preparation
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Topic Preparation Tips
💻 Coding Be ready to code, set up your local dev
environment, practice problems.
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Be ready to code, set up your local dev
environment, practice problems.
📊 Diagramming Explain system architectures, have a
diagramming tool ready
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🎥 Remote Setup Camera on, good mic, stable internet, quiet
place.
⚡ Things to Keep in Mind:
● Stay confident and concise.
● Explain your thought process clearly.
● Use examples from your experience.
🏗 Role-Specific Interview Questions
Topic Focus Area
Core React Native Hooks, Context, fetch requests.
React Deep dive into hooks like useEffect.
Frontend State management, types, when to use each.
Eg- global state management (instead of implementing
everything in the component), prefetching, infinite scroll for
frontend.
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Backend Monolith vs. microservices vs. serverless.
Database Relational vs. NoSQL vs other types of databases, when to use
each.
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AWS Services
Message Queues
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Beyond Lambda/APIs: DLQs, EventBridge.
Experience with SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
Machine Learning Models- Supervised vs. unsupervised
learning, deep learning.
Python & Libraries- NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow,
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PyTorch.
Big Data Processing- Spark, Hadoop, distributed computing
Data Analyst Data Visualization- Choose the right visualization for different
datasets
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SQL & Query Optimization- Write efficient queries and
understand indexing
Subscription Data Analysis- Understanding customer behavior
and churn rate
Data Engineer ETL Pipelines- Designing and optimizing data workflows
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AWS Services- Glue, S3, Redshift, EMR, Athena
Data Security & Governance- Encryption, access control, GDPR
compliance
Workflow Orchestration- Airflow, Step Functions
Product Manager Roadmap Planning- Aligning features with business goals
Metrics & KPIs- DAU, MAU, retention, churn
Competitor Analysis- Identifying market trends and gaps
⚡ Things to Keep in Mind:
● Show your decision-making process.
● Discuss trade-offs and why you chose certain technologies.
● Avoid surface-level answers, answer questions showing enough depth of your expertise,
experience, and knowledge.
🏛 Sample Interview Questions
📊 Data Analyst - Cat Marketplace Subscription Analysis
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There is a Cat marketplace with buyers and sellers of cats (pets that say meow). The marketplace
released a premium subscription feature. A buyer can enable their subscription to be able to
purchase and sell cats at lower prices, as well as receive complimentary meals for their cat every
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month without having to worry about.
Please submit responses for the questions below:
Describe the architecture behind your data visualizations?
• Which data do you need?
• Where would you get it?
• Which tables?
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Based on this data and your analysis, which recommendations would you make to improve
subscription performance?
To whom?
Why?
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🌍 Fullstack Web Application - Architecture Question
Design an architecture for a web application that allows users to share and view text data via a
generated link. Demonstrate your ability to architect the backend and frontend, ensuring
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scalability, performance, reliability, and a seamless user experience.
Scenario:
You are tasked with building a fullstack web application with the following core functionality:
Input: A text box where users can paste text data (e.g., code snippets or file contents).
Action: When users click "Create," the system generates a shareable link.
Output: The link allows others to view the exact same text data when opened.
The application should support 1 million daily active users and efficiently handle text data up to
500MB. The system must also support real-time updates when the backend modifies the data
(e.g., collaborative editing or server-side updates).
Deliverables:
Describe your architecture containing the high-level design, and how to handle traffic and large
contents. The response should consider all aspects described in the objective. Also, include
information about reliability and security as bonus points, remember to think about cost
optimization.
Your submission needs to include the following:
Frontend (framework, components structure, frontend stack, which pages the app will have,
general frontend app architecture, etc)
Backend (stack, layers, database, networking, deployment, etc)
Communication between them (endpoints, network libraries, call sequence, etc).
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🧠 General Tips & Tricks (for coding & system design questions)
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🐞 Debugging
🔍 Identify potential issues early.
🔄 Work through corrections methodically.
🧪 Test solutions thoroughly.
📝 If tests feel too long, explain why.
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❓ Questions to Ask at the End of the Interview
🚀 If it's a Startup:
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● Where are we in product-market fit?
● What features are next on the roadmap?
●
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How many active users/customers do we have?
● What is the state of our infrastructure (CI/CD, testing)?
● Do we have designers? Where are they located?
● How are sprints structured (Scrum/Kanban)?
🏢 If it's a Large Company:
● What is the company’s vision?
● What are the main initiatives for the quarter?
● What will my team be working on next?
● Product roadmap (which features)?
● Where is our backend/frontend/infrastructure today?
⚡ Things to Keep in Mind:
● Tailor questions based on company size & culture.
● Show interest in team workflow & future plans.
🎯 Final Thoughts
✅ Practice coding questions on LeetCode - https://leetcode.com/problemset/
✅ Keep explanations structured & concise.
✅ Maintain a positive & engaged attitude.
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✅ Always prepare relevant questions to ask at the end.
By following these tips, you'll be well-prepared for different types of interviews. Good luck! 🚀
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