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It totally depends on the company, but as a software engineer I’ve seen a lot of data structure/algorithm questions, system design scenarios, sometimes language-specific stuff if the role needs it. Behavioral questions tied to technical challenges are big too.
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All of our technical questions are like "Give me a rundown of this product line". It's just to see if you were obviously lying on your resume.
Where I am, I’ve seen the tech interviewers ask candidates to complete a free body diagram for some sort of loaded component. Which is hilarious because I’ve never seen our full time engineers ever do one!
Usually they are focused on my experience but once this guy gave me a written test for fluid dynamics, like I would remember navier stokes equation and shiz. did not really pursue that job beyond that interview.