Most Senior and Tech Lead interviews aren’t just about coding.
They’re about how you think, communicate, and lead.

You’ll be evaluated on how you handle code reviews, manage technical debt, push back on unrealistic timelines, work with difficult stakeholders, and respond when things go wrong. Most engineers do these things in real jobs - but struggle to explain them clearly in interviews.

This guide is designed to fix that.

It gives you real interview scenarios, structured frameworks, and example answers so you know exactly how to respond and why it works.

40 practical interview scenarios covering what senior engineers and tech leads are actually tested on.

Includes:

• Development process decisions (reviews, CI/CD, testing, estimation, tech debt)
• Real technical scenarios (production issues, migrations, caching, incidents)
• Collaboration challenges (PMs, QA, DevOps, cross-team dependencies)
• Leadership & behavioral situations (mentoring, feedback, disagreement, failure, decision-making)

40 interview scenarios covering everything engineers get asked in managerial and behavioural rounds

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