How to prepare for a technical interview in two weeks
A practical two-week plan covering fundamentals, coding practice, system design, behavioural stories and the logistics that are easy to forget.
Software Engineering
Backend Developer interviews
Backend interviews focus on APIs, databases, concurrency, caching, reliability and designing services that scale.
The interview loop
What interviews usually look like
A typical sequence. Every company runs its own process, so confirm the rounds with your recruiter.
- 1
Screen
Language fundamentals and a coding problem.
- 2
Coding round
Algorithms or a practical task such as building an endpoint.
- 3
System design
Design a service like a URL shortener, rate limiter or feed.
- 4
Behavioural
Incidents, on-call and cross-team work.
Key skills
- API design
- SQL and data modelling
- Caching
- Concurrency
- Messaging
- Security
- Observability
Common interview areas
- REST and GraphQL
- Indexes and transactions
- Rate limiting
- Queues and idempotency
- Authentication
- Scaling reads and writes
Ask Agents for this role
How Ask Agents helps backend developer candidates
- Long Question Context handles layered design prompts with added constraints.
- Coding Copilot supports algorithm rounds with complexity and edge cases.
- Resume Brain turns your real incidents and projects into concise stories.
More Software Engineering roles
Software Engineer
Software engineering interviews combine data structures and algorithms, system design for mid-level and senior roles, and behavioural questions about ownership and collaboration.
- Data structures
- Algorithms
- Complexity analysis
Frontend Developer
Frontend interviews test JavaScript fundamentals, framework knowledge such as React, UI building exercises, performance and accessibility.
- JavaScript and TypeScript
- React
- HTML semantics
Full Stack Developer
Full stack interviews move between frontend and backend: building features end to end, API contracts, data modelling and deployment.
- JavaScript and TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
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