Software Engineer Entry Level Interview Questions

Entry-level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Viewpoint

3.4★

Jul 6, 2016

What's the difference between an inner and outer join

Entry Level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Kondaur Capital

2.5★

Jun 1, 2018

My background on software

Entry Level Software Developer

Interviewed at Summitworks Technologies

3.9★

Mar 6, 2018

What is garbage collection in Java?

Entry Level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Havertys

3.2★

Sep 20, 2021

What is an advantage of using HashMaps?

Entry Level Software Developer

Interviewed at Shopify

3.4★

Jul 12, 2023

Simplify a filepath in a unix system.

Entry Level Software Developer

Interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (North America)

3.5★

Sep 3, 2021

What are the 4 pillars of OOP?

Entry Level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (North America)

3.5★

Apr 26, 2018

What is the difference between relational and non-relational databases?

Entry Level Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tata Consultancy Services (North America)

3.5★

Jul 14, 2021

What happened if your deadline is coming but you have not finished the work?

Entry Level Software Developer

Interviewed at Smoothstack

3.7★

Aug 30, 2023

What's the difference between a stack and a queue?

Entry-level Software Developer

Interviewed at ASG Platform

4.4★

May 15, 2025

If I can perform the assessment they sent. They also added the following line, verbatim: "If you don’t have enough programming experience to use these AI tools to create what the task is asking for, then you shouldn’t even start because automatically you are NOT qualified for this position."