Berlin Software Designers

Join this Interview Simulation session — to sharpen the skills for both interviews and architectural pitches.

💡 How it works
The event is split into three parts:

1. Answers for common behavioral questions - at the beginning, I will read some common interview questions, explain what they mean, and give the correct answers.
2. Interview Simulation (10 minute rounds) – One participant acts as the interviewee and answers a round of behavioral and design-focused questions. Each other participant gets to ask him one interview question.
3. Feedback Round – The group provides feedback on communication, structure, and clarity. Constructive criticism is encouraged.

💡You will be asked:

• Behavioral questions (“Tell me about yourself”, “Describe a challenge you faced...”)
• Technical questions (based on your tech stack)
• Light design problems (high-level reasoning, not code)

No need to prepare anything in advance — just bring curiosity and an open mind.

Feel free to bring your CV if you’d like feedback from others, or share a few words if you’re currently job hunting. If so, we will also brainstorm answers to more common questions that you were asked.

Whether you’re preparing for an interview or simply want to grow as a software designer or architect, this session is for you.

Note: location is restaurant Hackesher Hoff: https://maps.app.goo.gl/btSChwkJzaoUSfN7A

💡Resources:

We look at several system design challenge. For each of them, we only do the database modelling part: what tables are needed, what indexes does each table need, and how are the tables partitioned to support the most used queries.

System design challenges: we use the exercises from hellointerview:

We read small github repositories, and try to understand the code and what design decisions were behind it.

Here is a list of such small Golang apps, you can add your own to it: