Looking for a Senior Python Developer to get the most out of your Development team? Ask a balanced set of technical as well as non-technical interview questions and hire the best candidate for the job.
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Senior Python Developer Interview Questions
Technical roles demand strong candidates with learning skills and passion for the job. Along with these qualities, this profile requires a solid background in Computer Science. When sourcing for a Senior Python Developer, look for the following:
- Analyze their understanding of basic algorithmic concepts and find out how they find/think/sort. Figure out if they inherit a wider understanding of databases. Ask about their approach to modeling.
- How do they stay up-to-date with the latest developments? Probe for the technical books they prefer to read. Are there any blogs they read regularly?
- Do they have active Github accounts? Did they work on any open-source software projects?
All these Senior Python Developer interview questions will help you gauge their intellectual interest in their chosen field. Ask these questions to let the committed and inquisitive candidates stand out.
Computer Science questions
- What makes up a good unit test?
- Can you implement a binary search of a sorted array of integers by using pseudo-code?
- What are the core principles of a REST API? Can you tell how it is a different philosophy from RPC?
Role-specific questions
- Explain how the arguments are passed in Python.
- Is it possible that a producer thread is reading from the network and a consumer thread is writing to a file?
- Can you give me an example of a filter?
- In python, why functions are first-class objects?
- Mention the tools that you use for profiling, linting, and debugging.
- In python, how can one manage a memory?
- What do you mean by direct and list comprehensions?
- Mention some difference between Python 2.x and 3.x
- What does it mean when we say that a certain lambda expression makes a closure?
- Does it mean python does not use real threads when we say it uses a global interpreter lock?
- Can you find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers?
