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جيڪي سوال اهي پڇن ٿا، ۽ مشق جو ٽائمر
عهدو چونڊيو. هر سوال سان آهي ته سٺو جواب ڇا سميٽي ٿو؛ ٽائمر چلايو، ٻن منٽن ۾ وڏي آواز سان جواب ڏيو جيئن ڪمري ۾ ڏيندا، پوءِ اڳتي وڌو. سوال انگريزيءَ ۾ آهن، جيئن پاڪستان جا اڪثر انٽرويو هوندا آهن.
هن ئي ڊوائيس تي چلي ٿو: جيڪو توهان لکو ٿا سو نه محفوظ ٿئي ٿو نه ڪيڏانهن موڪليو وڃي ٿو.
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سوال 1 مان 80
Tell me about yourself.
سٺو جواب ڇا سميٽي ٿو
Two minutes: where you studied, the one or two things you built or did that fit this role, and why you applied here. Not your life story.
هي ٽول اسڪرپٽس سان چلي ٿو. اسڪرپٽس بند هجن ته هن صفحي جا جدول ۽ فارمولا هٿ سان حساب ڪرڻ ڏين ٿا.
سڀ سوال
Fresh graduate, any role 10 سوال
- Tell me about yourself.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Two minutes: where you studied, the one or two things you built or did that fit this role, and why you applied here. Not your life story.
- Why do you want this job?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Name something specific about the company or the role; connect it to what you want to learn and give.
- What is your biggest strength, with an example?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: One strength the role needs, one short story that shows it, the result.
- What is a weakness you are working on?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A real one that is not central to the job, and what you are already doing about it.
- Tell me about a project you are proud of.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Your part in it, a problem you hit, how you solved it, what it did for people.
- How do you learn something new quickly?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A concrete method: a course, docs, building a small thing, asking someone. Give the last example.
- Describe a time you worked in a team that was not going well.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What was wrong, what you did (not what others did wrong), how it ended.
- Where do you see yourself in three years?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A direction that includes this company, with the skills you want by then.
- Why should we hire you over other fresh graduates?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Evidence: a project, an internship, a community role, a habit of finishing things.
- Do you have any questions for us?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Always yes: the team's work in the first three months, how they measure a good first year, what they wish new hires knew.
Software engineer 10 سوال
- Walk me through a system you built end to end.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The problem, the pieces, the data flow, the trade-offs you chose and what you would change now.
- How do you decide between two designs?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Constraints first: time, team, scale, cost, what can change later. Say what you would prototype.
- What is the difference between a process and a thread?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Memory space, scheduling, cost of creation, when you use each. One example from your work.
- Explain how you would find a bug that only happens in production.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Logs, metrics, reproducing with the same data, narrowing by bisecting; what you add so it is easier next time.
- How do you keep code readable for the next person?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Names, small functions, tests as examples, comments on why not what, reviews.
- Describe how a request travels from a browser to a database and back.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: DNS, TLS, the server, routing, the query, serialisation, caching along the way.
- What do you test, and what do you not bother testing?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Behaviour and edge cases over implementation; the cost of a test versus the cost of the bug.
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a technical decision.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: How you made the case with evidence, how you handled being overruled, what happened.
- How would you make a slow page fast?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Measure first; then the usual suspects: queries, payload size, caching, rendering, the network.
- What have you learnt recently outside of work?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Something specific, why it interested you, and what you did with it.
DevOps and cloud 10 سوال
- Explain CI/CD as you would to a new developer.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Every change built and tested automatically, then shipped in small safe steps; what breaks when a team skips it.
- A deployment went wrong at 2 am. What do you do first?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Stop the damage (roll back or scale), tell people, then find the cause; the post-mortem comes after sleep.
- How is a container different from a virtual machine?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Shared kernel versus a full OS; start-up time, isolation, density; when each is the right choice.
- What does Kubernetes give you that Docker alone does not?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Scheduling, self-healing, scaling, service discovery, rolling updates, declared desired state.
- How do you keep secrets out of code and images?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A secrets manager or sealed secrets, environment injection, scanning the repository, rotation.
- Describe infrastructure as code and one risk of it.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Versioned, reviewable infrastructure (Terraform, Pulumi); the risk of drift or a destructive plan applied without review.
- What would you monitor for a web service, and what would wake you up?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Latency, errors, traffic, saturation; alert on symptoms users feel, not on every metric.
- How would you cut a cloud bill by a third?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Right-size, turn off idle things, reserved or spot capacity, storage tiers, find the one service eating most of it.
- Explain a blue-green or canary release.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Two environments or a small slice of traffic first, watched, then widened or rolled back.
- Tell me about a security problem you found or prevented.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What it was, how you found it, how you fixed it without breaking the service, what you automated after.
Data analyst or data scientist 10 سوال
- Walk me through an analysis you did from question to decision.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The business question, the data and its problems, the method, the chart that made it clear, what changed because of it.
- How do you handle missing or dirty data?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Find out why it is missing first; then drop, fill or flag, and say so in the result.
- Explain a p-value, or a confidence interval, to a manager.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Plain words, no formula: how surprising the result would be if nothing were going on.
- Write a query that finds the top five customers by revenue this year.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: GROUP BY, SUM, ORDER BY, LIMIT; ask about returns and currency before you write it.
- When would you not use a machine learning model?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: When a rule or a simple average works, when there is too little data, when a wrong answer costs too much to explain.
- How do you check that a model is not just memorising?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Hold-out data, cross-validation, watching the gap between training and test performance.
- Tell me about a chart that misled someone and how you fixed it.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Truncated axes, cherry-picked ranges, pie charts; what you changed and what it showed.
- How would you measure whether a new feature worked?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Define the metric before launch, a comparison group, enough time and users, and what would count as failure.
- Which tools do you reach for and why?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: SQL, Python or R, a notebook, a BI tool; what each is good for and where it breaks down.
- What is correlation versus causation, with an example you met?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Two things moving together without one causing the other; how you tested which was true.
QA and test engineer 10 سوال
- How would you test a login page?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Valid and invalid paths, edge cases, security basics, accessibility, what happens on slow networks and small screens.
- What is the difference between a test case and a test scenario?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The scenario is what to check; the case is the exact steps, data and expected result.
- How do you decide what to automate?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Repeated, stable, high-value checks first; leave exploratory and one-off testing to people.
- Describe a bug report that a developer thanked you for.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Title, steps, expected versus actual, environment, logs or a screen recording, how often it happens.
- What would you do if a release is tomorrow and you found a serious bug?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Report it with its impact clearly, propose options (fix, work around, delay), let the decision be made with facts.
- Explain regression testing and when it matters most.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Checking that old behaviour still works after a change; before a release, after a refactor, after a dependency update.
- How do you test an API without a user interface?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Postman or a script: status codes, schema, edge inputs, auth, rate limits, idempotency.
- What is the testing pyramid, and do you agree with it?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Many unit tests, fewer integration, fewest end-to-end; where it fits and where it does not.
- How do you test for performance?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Define the load and the target, measure under it, find the first bottleneck; tools you have used.
- Tell me about a time you missed a bug. What changed after?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Own it, say what the gap was, and the check or habit you added.
Product and project roles 10 سوال
- How do you decide what to build next?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Users' problems, the company's goal, the effort; a framework you actually used and what it left out.
- Tell me about a feature that failed and what you learnt.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What you expected, what the numbers said, what you did with it.
- How do you write a requirement a developer will not misread?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The user, the goal, acceptance criteria, examples, what is out of scope.
- A stakeholder wants a feature you think is wrong. What do you do?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Understand the goal behind the ask, bring data or a cheap test, agree on what success means.
- How do you run a project that is late?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Find out why, cut scope before cutting quality, tell people early, re-plan with the team.
- Describe how you measure a product's success.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: One or two metrics tied to the goal, a baseline, and what would make you change course.
- How do you talk to users?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Interviews with open questions, watching them use it, support tickets; how often and what you did with it.
- Explain a trade-off you made between speed and quality.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The context, the decision, who you told, what it cost later.
- How do you keep a team informed without wasting their time?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A short written update, one meeting that matters, a visible plan; what you stopped doing.
- What product do you admire, and what would you change in it?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A specific thing, why users would feel the difference, how you would test the change.
The HR round 10 سوال
- What are your salary expectations?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Research the range for the role and city, give a range not a number, and ask about the full package.
- Why are you leaving your current job?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Forward-looking and honest, no blame: what you want next that this role has.
- When can you join?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Know your notice period; a clear date beats an eager guess.
- Are you comfortable with the working hours, travel or location?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Answer truthfully; a constraint discussed now saves a problem later.
- Tell me about a gap in your CV.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What you did in it, briefly, and what you learnt; no apology.
- Have you applied elsewhere?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Honest and brief: yes, to similar roles; this one interests you because of a specific reason.
- How do you handle stress and deadlines?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A real example and the habits that help: planning, asking early, breaks.
- What do you know about our company?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Their products, customers, recent news, and one thing you find interesting about how they work.
- Describe your ideal manager.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Clear goals, honest feedback, room to do the work; what you give back.
- Is there anything that would stop you from accepting an offer?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Think about it before the interview: role, pay, location, growth; be clear and polite.
Behavioural and situational 10 سوال
- Tell me about a time you failed.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Situation, what you did, what happened, what you changed. The change is the answer.
- Describe a conflict with a colleague and how you resolved it.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Their view fairly, your view, the conversation you had, the outcome for the work.
- Give an example of leading without being in charge.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Noticing a gap, proposing a plan, bringing others along, the result.
- Tell me about a time you had too much to do.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: How you decided what came first, what you said no or not-yet to, who you told.
- Describe a time you received hard feedback.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What it was, how you reacted in the moment, what you did about it in the weeks after.
- When did you go beyond what was asked?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: A specific extra effort that helped someone, not just working late.
- Tell me about a decision you made with incomplete information.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: What you knew, what you assumed, how you limited the risk, what you learnt.
- Describe a time you had to learn something fast to deliver.
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: The gap, your method, the deadline, the result, and what stuck.
- How have you handled a mistake that affected others?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Owning it quickly, fixing it, telling the people affected, preventing a repeat.
- What motivates you on a bad day?
سٺو جواب سميٽي ٿو: Something true about you: the people, the craft, the user at the end.
ڄاڻڻ جون ڳالهيون
- ڪهاڻيءَ سان جواب ڏيو: حالت، توهان ڇا ڪيو، ڇا ٿيو. ٽيهه سيڪنڊ کان ٻه منٽ، ۽ ڳالهه مڪمل ٿئي ته رڪجي وڃو.
- هڪ ڀيرو پنهنجي فون تي پاڻ کي رڪارڊ ڪريو. توهان اهي تڪيا ڪلام ۽ رفتار ٻڌندا جيڪا ڪو نه ٿو ٻڌائي.
- انهن کان پڇڻ لاءِ ٽي سوال تيار رکو؛ انٽرويو ڳالهه ٻولهه آهي، امتحان ناهي.
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