Golang Interview Questions – Need Guidance & Best Resources!

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Hey Gophers,

I have an upcoming Golang interview, and I want to make sure I am fully prepared. I have been working with Go for some time.., but I would love to hear from experienced developers about the types of questions I might face.

I have also gone through Golang Interview Questions guide and I didn’t understand Q no. 20 and Q no. 23. Could you guys share some common questions that are frequently asked for roles like backend developer, cloud engineer, or system programmer: ?? Also, any recommendations for solid resources to sharpen my skills: ??

Some areas I think I should focus on:

  • Concurrency and Goroutines
  • Interfaces and Structs
  • Error Handling Best Practices
  • Memory Management in Go
  • Performance Optimization

If anyone has recently gone through a Golang interview, your insights would be super valuable !! Also, any tricky or unexpected questions that caught you off guard: ??

Looking forward to your advice.

Thanks in advance !!

Joseph

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Do you know our business (or customers business)? How can you help us reach our goals?

How is your portfolio? What have you done so far?

I think non Go questions are the most unexpected.

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I recently had a couple of interviews as a freelance technical auditor.

The portfolio projects mentioned by Silbert were very important. Because they provide a good starting point for the questions. My strategy is to first ask questions that the candidate can answer: Thus I talk about the portfolio project, about design decisions, find out how well it was understood and planned, ask about optimizations, problems that arose, next steps and so on.
Then a round of questions begins, but I don’t expect the candidate to know everything. I also ask questions whose answers I don’t know and see if the candidate can explain them to me.

Those questions are the most unexpected as I myself do not know them beforehand. :joy:

Nobody really has to code live or anything like that with me. I do let them show me the screen, but more to briefly see how the candidate operates their own computer.

I don’t find the standard interview questions useful. They’re just rote learning things.

One last thing: There is no “best” candiates. I do a ranking, but for me there is really suitable or not as there are many other things to consider for the company and a fixed position is there so that the candidat can still learn specific stuff in the future. So there is also the question if he will be able to and not if he already knows.