23 Do Google software engineers keep all the variables at the very top or do they prefer to keep them close to relevant locations all throughout a program?

24 What do software engineers at Infosys, Wipro, CTS, or TCS do on a daily basis? Do you like your work? Is it monotonous?

25 What is the most absurd code you've ever seen?

26 Have you ever seen code so bad it made you laugh?

27 Which programmer do you hire: the one who programs a messy program in three hours or the other who does a well-structured program in twelve?

28 Have you seen any candidate that received all 5 "strong hires" for the Google interview?

29 Where do weak software developers work?

30 Why do Google engineers use MacBooks instead of Linux laptops?

31 I was asked to solve a well known NP-complete problem in an interview. Should I refuse to solve it?

32 I’m a mediocre software engineer. Can I be successful in companies like Facebook, Google, Uber etc? I prepared like hell for 6 months, and got an offer from one of them. I fear I got the offer because of my preparation and I’ll fail on the job.

33 What are the growth stages of a programmer?

34 Why is programming so easy?

35 What is the best advice you can give to a junior programmer?

36 What do only people with 20-50 years of programming experience know?

37 What happens to software developers who don't become managers?

38 What is a 'bug that became a feature' in real life?

39 Do senior software engineers feel threatened when junior hires are catching up?

40 Should I still work as a software engineer if I know that I am not smart enough to work for a world class company like Google or Microsoft?

41 As a software developer, should I pretend to be a fast coder in office?

42 In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile? What are better project management paradigm alternatives?

43 Should I fire a programmer who uses Stack Overflow all the time?

44 I recently resigned from TCS and got an offer outside with a 35% hike. Now, the manager is offering onsite for Uruguay or Malaysia. They are promising that you will be promoted in 6 months. What should I do?

45 What separates top engineers from average engineers at companies like Google and Amazon?

46 What are some examples of extremely clever problem solving in the software development world?

47 What is the darkest part of a software developer’s career?

48 How good is Mark Zuckerberg with competitive programming?

49 What was your most arrogant software engineering interview candidate experience?

50 Why do companies like Snapchat, Uber, Google, etc. need thousands of engineers when their product is already made? What do they do on a day-to-day basis?

51 Why is Linux considered more suitable for code development than Windows despite the fact debugging the code is so much easier with Visual Studio than with Linux tools such as Eclipse, GDB, and TotalView?

52 Why do so many backend developers say that frontend is easier?

53 Is it the end of an era for vanilla software engineers?

54 When a CS professor at a top 10 university wants to work at Google, does he have to go through the same interview process where they might be asked to write code to reverse a linked list?

55 What company has the best code quality between Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon?

56 Is a 10x programmer a myth?

57 What are the reasons why every IT professional wants to settle down in Bangalore, despite having other options available? What makes this city so special for IT people?

58 How does a software loading bar work? How do computer programs know how much time they have left to finish?

59 Is it actually true that if software engineers work on their personal projects on the company computer/laptop, that project belongs to the company?

60 Why doesn't MySQL Database scale in big projects? I always hear developers they replace it with something else when the project grows.

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