Interview questions we actually use

React / Front-End

• Build a paginated list with cache + error states. What breaks at 10k rows?
• Review this useEffect — find the leak.

Node / Back-End

• Design idempotent webhook intake. How do you retry safely?
• Where do you put authZ checks?

DevOps

• Dockerize this API. How do you keep image <150MB and secrets out?

AI

• RAG answers hallucinate — how do you eval + constrain citations?

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