Questions that have appeared at jpmorgan for a Software Engineer (Technical) interview.

1. Software Development Lifecycle

Question: Can you describe the different stages in a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and your experience with each?

Question: Can you explain the difference between Agile and Waterfall methodologies and when you might use each?

Question: How do you handle change requests while the software development process is ongoing?

2. System Design

Question: How would you design a system that needs to handle high volume of data?

Question: Can you explain the concept of sharding in databases and when to use it?

Question: Can you explain the difference between vertical and horizontal scaling?

3. Testing

Question: Can you explain the difference between unit testing and integration testing?

Question: What strategies would you use to test a software system before release?

Question: How can a software engineer ensure that software bugs are identified and corrected?

4. Algorithms and Data Structures

Question: Can you explain how a binary search algorithm works?

Question: What are the ways to traverse a tree data structure?

Question: What is the time complexity of sorting algorithms and can you give examples?

5. Software Architecture

Question: Can you describe the difference between monolithic and microservices architectures?

Question: How would you design a system for fault tolerance and high availability?

Question: What are some of the key considerations when deciding to use a NoSQL database over a relational database?