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• Node.js

  A time you used Node.js: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.

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• Agile

  A time you used Agile: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.

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• Azure

  A time you used Azure: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.

  From skills the ad mentions

• 30+ years of experience

  How your experience adds up to what they ask for (30+ years), and the parts most like this job.

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• Languages: English

  Be ready to answer a question or two in that language, and say where you've used it at work.

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JobRipe's guide for software engineering interviews

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1. 1.Walk me through the architecture of a system you built. What would you change today?technical

   Why they ask: Design judgement.

   How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.

2. 2.How do you make a slow endpoint fast?technical

   Why they ask: Debugging method.

   How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.

3. 3.How do you test code you are about to ship?technical

   Why they ask: Quality habits.

   How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.

4. 4.How have you used Node.js in production, and what went wrong at least once?technical

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