Next webinar starts in

00

DAYS

:

00

HR

:

00

MINS

:

00

SEC

Register for webinar
FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT INTERVIEW COURSE

Nail Your Next Full Stack Development Interview

4.7
Tpm reviews
Students enrolled: 307

Learn everything you need to know to ace your Full Stack Development interview from FAANG+ engineers. This course has been meticulously curated by experts to help you put your best foot forward.

Register for webinar
Learn more about the course & pricing
It's Free
company-logos

Next webinar starts in

00
DAYS
:
00
HR
:
00
MINS
:
00
SEC

Course Overview

Start Learning
Get all the information about the course and pricing in our live webinar with Q&A.
Best suited for
  • Full Stack Engineers/Developers looking to transition to tier-1 companies
  • Software Engineers/Developers looking to transition to tier-1 companies
Not suitable for
  • UI/UX designers and candidates with no Front-end/Back-end experience

Why choose this course?

Program designed by FAANG+ leads

Covering data structures, algorithms, interview-relevant topics, and career coaching

Individualized teaching and 1:1 help

Technical coaching, homework assistance, solutions discussion, and individual session

Personalized feedback

Constructive, structured, and actionable insights for improved interview performance

Personalized feedback

Constructive, structured, and actionable insights for improved interview performance

Career skills development

Resume building, LinkedIn profile optimization, personal branding, and live behavioral workshops

50% Money-Back Guarantee*

If you do well in our course but still don't land a domain-relevant job within the post-program support period, we'll refund 50% of the tuition you paid for the course.*

Register for webinar
It's Free

Next webinar starts in

00
DAYS
:
00
HR
:
00
MINS
:
00
SEC

Meet your instructors

Our highly experienced instructors are active hiring managers and employees at FAANG+ companies and know exactly what it takes to ace tech and managerial interviews.
instructor

Quazie Kwaselow

Senior Software Engineer r
15+ years experience
instructor-cmpny
Instructor-cmpny

A typical week at Interview Kickstart

This is how we structure and organize your interview prep. Our learners devote 10 to 12 hours per week to this course.

Thu

Get Foundational content
Get high-quality videos and course material for next week’s topics
Covers introduction to fundamentals, interview-relevant topics, and case studies
Attend timed test and review session
1-hour timed test covering essential interview questions on the current week's topics
1-hour test review session to discuss the test solution and other best practices

Sun

Attend online live sessions
Attend 4-5 hours long live sessions covering interview-relevant Full Stack concepts
A FAANG+ instructor will lead a discussion on a wide range of interview problems, open-ended design questions, and how to approach them

Mon-Wed

Practice problems & case studies
Apply the concepts taught in live sessions to solve assignment questions
Discuss the solutions of interview-oriented assignment problems in the live class
Live doubt-solving with FAANG+ Full Stack instructors

Every day

1:1 access to instructors
Personalized coaching from FAANG+ Full Stack instructors
Individualized and detailed attention to your questions
Solution walkthroughs

Full Stack Development Course details and Curriculum

Data Structures and Algorithms (Coding)
  • 5 weeks
  • 5 live classes
1

Sorting

  • Introduction to Sorting
  • Basics of Asymptotic Analysis and Worst Case & Average Case Analysis
  • Different Sorting Algorithms and their comparison
  • Algorithm paradigms like Divide & Conquer, Decrease & Conquer, Transform & Conquer
  • Presorting
  • Extensions of Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort
  • Common Sorting-related coding interview problems
2

Recursion

  • Recursion as a Lazy Manager’s Strategy
  • Recursive Mathematical Functions
  • Combinatorial Enumeration
  • Backtracking
  • Exhaustive Enumeration & General Template
  • Common Recursion- and Backtracking-related coding interview problems
3

Trees

  • Dictionaries & Sets, Hash Tables 
  • Modeling data as Binary Trees and Binary Search Tree and performing different operations over them
  • Tree Traversals and Constructions 
  • BFS Coding Patterns
  • DFS Coding Patterns
  • Tree Construction from its traversals 
  • Common Trees-related coding interview problems
4

Graphs

  • Overview of Graphs
  • Problem definition of the 7 Bridges of Konigsberg and its connection with Graph theory
  • What is a Graph, and when do you model a problem as a Graph?
  • How to store a Graph in memory (Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Adjacency Maps)
  • Graphs traversal: BFS and DFS, BFS Tree, DFS stack-based implementation
  • A general template to solve any problems modeled as Graphs
  • Graphs in Interviews
  • Common Graphs-related coding interview problems
5

Dynamic Programming

  • Dynamic Programming introduction
  • Modeling problems as recursive mathematical functions
  • Detecting overlapping subproblems
  • Top-down Memorization
  • Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Optimizing Bottom-up Tabulation
  • Common DP-related coding interview problems
System Design
  • 3 weeks
  • 3 live classes
1

Online Processing Systems

  • The client-server model of Online processing
  • Top-down steps for system design interview
  • Depth and breadth analysis
  • Cryptographic hash function
  • Network Protocols, Web Server, Hash Index
  • Scaling
  • Performance Metrics of a Scalable System
  • SLOs and SLAs
  • Proxy: Reverse and Forward
  • Load balancing
  • CAP Theorem
  • Content Distribution Networks
  • Cache
  • Sharding
  • Consistent Hashing
  • Storage
  • Case Studies: URL Shortener, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, Messaging/Chat Services
2

Batch Processing Systems

  • Inverted Index
  • External Sort Merge
  • K-way External Sort-Merge
  • Distributed File System
  • Map-reduce Framework
  • Distributed Sorting
  • Case Studies: Search Engine, Graph Processor, Typeahead Suggestions, Recommendation Systems
3

Stream Processing Systems

  • Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube
Full Stack Domain
  • 5 weeks
  • 5 live classes
1

Databases

  • Frequently asked interview questions on databases for various use cases; social media platform – search, user connections, user feeds, ads, payments; how to handle peak hours?
  • Design an e-commerce data warehouse to efficiently compute, store and retrieve live metrics at various frequencies
  • Design a database solution for a web crawler that scrapes the product and pricing information from a competitor’s e-commerce website
  • Design a schema for Apple Music
    • Deep dive into database internals (transactions, indexes, and performance)
  • Explore Cloud Database Monitoring Tools: Monitoring database health and performance, scale performance via sharding
  • Comprehensive coverage of clarifying questions to ask while doing the requirement analysis and scope fencing during the design phase of a database
2

API Design and Implementation

  • Design an API for an image-sharing application: Outline which response codes you would use for certain situations on each endpoint
  • How to identify which user is accessing our API? Different ways of identifying a user from an API OAuth, Passwordless authentication, Multi-factor authentication
  • How to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks or session replays or cookie stealing/replays?
    • Encryption: How much is too much? Enforcing HTTPs
  • Design an API for Kick News, a discussion forum like Reddit or Hacker News – architecting, documenting, and testing REST APIs
  • Case study on moderation tools – When to use each authentication method and types of authorization
  • Call multiple endpoints and join the data on the client-side or implement infinite scrolling using GraphQL
  • Implement KickChat, a live chat feature – reacting to server events with polling and webhooks
  • How to test an API for security threats? Understanding the threats and then working on steps to prevent security threats: XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, input sanitization
3

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Evaluating cloud-native solutions for cost optimization; Economics of cloud and serverless computing
  • Fundamental questions on Key/Value datastores vs. RDBMS
  • Design a video transcoding service using a hybrid cloud architecture
  • Common problems in cloud-native/serverless systems and how to mitigate them? – Issues with database connections, scaling, and the hug of death
  • Interesting follow-up questions on system monitoring and alerts
    • How to fix a broken Lambda function?
  • Best practices and principles to be followed to meet the FAANG+ bar – DevOps, Infrastructure as Code
4

JavaScript and Web Development

Design an advertising API using JavaScript
  • Application logic using function expression or in-line expression
  • Popular FAANG+ interview question on re-writing the promise chain as async/await style code
  • How would you indicate that a piece of JavaScript code should only be used for a particular type of variable?
    • Using TypeScript to reduce code ambiguity, and in combination with other frameworks
  • Make critical design decisions. Manage external dependencies using yarn or an external package
Develop a Twitter-like homepage, with infinite scrolling – a popular FAANG+ interview question
  • How information may be passed down to child components using ‘props’
  • Approaches towards dynamically updating web pages – a popular interview skill 
  • Questions on using iFrames and web components to incorporate external content
  • Incorporating good authorization and security policies for users
    • Demo of an OAuth integration, using the Google Drive API
5

UI System Design

  • Design a custom control component <SearchBox /> by extending existing controls
  • Design a portable UI control that provides a secure and compliant way to capture a payment method – embedding the payment method form in a web application
  • Develop a component-based design system to avoid duplicating development efforts – using Storybook.js to support the component library pattern
  • Transform state management from a non-framework model to a framework-specific model
  • How to think, act, and articulate like a front-end architect and tech lead emitting senior+ signals in system design interviews using methodical and structured interview strategy
  • Evaluate options, perform trade-offs, and analyze the business impact of modern web development frameworks
  • Manage the state of a UI application – A demonstration of how to approach programming questions in the UI system design domain
  • Design a common components library such as Bootstrap
  • Design a UI component SDK such as Stripe checkout SDK – A common theme in UI system design interviews
  • Industry trends within front-end engineering and surrounding domains (AI/ML)
Career Session Orientation
  • 3 weeks
  • 3 live classes
1

Interview Preparation

  • Interview Questions
  • Interview Strategy
  • Behavioral Coaching
2

Resume & LinkedIn Masterclass

3

Salary Negotiation Masterclass

Support Period
  • 6 months
1

15 mock interviews

2

Take classes you missed/retake classes/tests

3

Self-paced content on additional topics for Data Structures and Algorithms‍

4

1:1 technical/career coaching

5

Interview strategy and salary negotiation support

Register for webinar
It's Free

Next webinar starts in

00
DAYS
:
00
HR
:
00
MINS
:
00
SEC

Practice and track progress on UpLevel

UpLevel will be your all-in-one learning platform to get you FAANG-ready, with 10,000+ interview questions, timed tests, videos, mock interviews suite, and more.
Mock interviews suite
On-demand timed tests
In-browser online judge
10,000 interview questions
100,000 hours of video explanations
Class schedules & activity alerts
Real-time progress update
11 programming languages

Get upto 15 mock interviews with

hiring managers

What makes our mock Interviews the best:

Hiring managers from Tier-1 companies like Google & Apple

Interview with the best. No one will prepare you better!

Domain-specific Interviews

Practice for your target domain - Full Stack

Detailed personalized feedback

Identify and work on your improvement areas

Transparent, non-anonymous interviews

Get the most realistic experience possible

1. Flexible schedule

Pick timings convenient to you

4. Technical and behavioral interviews

Uplevel your technical and behavioral interview skills

2. Remote interview experience

Mirrors the current format of remote interviews

5. Level-specific interviews

Because an L4 at Google can be quite different from an E7 at Meta

3. Feedback documentation

All the feedback you’ve ever wanted, recorded and documented

6. Interviewer of your choice

Choose based on domain

Career impact

Our students land high-paying and rewarding offers from the biggest tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, and Netflix.

Siddharth Mondal

Works at:
Best course I would say for student of CSE or IT and professional. It will be more fruitful to me if I found this before 16 years when I was student. After this course anyone can be eligible/prepaired for FAANG or FAANG like companies. Contents are very good and explained everything nicely. This is my honest review. Anyone who is thinking about product based company, just take it, surely will not regret.

Sayan Banerjee

Works at:
IK is great place to set your foundation not just for big tech interviews but more so for being better engineer. Expert insights they bring in shape your ideas of working with inspiring/brightest minds in tech world. Customer service is prompt and on-time in resolving your request every single time so far. The courses are extensive and its rewarding for ppl who ready to work their sweat off consistently .

Kajal Chatterjee

Placed at:

amazon
I completed the Interview Kickstart Full stack program and currently pursuing Advance Gen AI program, and overall, I'm happy with the experience. The program is well-structured and targets the key areas needed for technical interviews, including data structures, algorithms, and system design. The instructors are knowledgeable, and the mock interviews provided invaluable practice and feedback. It prepares you for interviews within a reasonable time frame. You can retake the course and attend doubt-clearing sessions, which is great for reinforcing what you've learned.

Garima Pandey

Works at:
Resources are really helpful,
They have been so cooperative and helpful during the period of my interview prep and also after i faced a layoff! They helped me with resources and guidance! Truly appreciate everything for keeping yourself motivated and prepared for any situation !

Rosalin Dash

Works at:
I greatly appreciate and enjoy the content designed for Full Stack Developers. It fosters a way of thinking that I initially lacked when I began working with a startup.
Thank you for helping me develop a mindset that balances technical expertise with business considerations. This has enhanced my approach as a technical developer, enabling me to focus on both technical solutions and business revenue, rather than simply completing tasks to meet business needs.
My sincere recommendation is to follow the material as suggested by the team and avoid procrastinating the process.

How to enroll for the Full Stack Development Interview course?

Learn more about Interview Kickstart and the Data Science course by joining the free webinar hosted by Ryan Valles, co-founder of Interview Kickstart
Register for webinar
It's Free

Next webinar starts in

00
DAYS
:
00
HR
:
00
MINS
:
00
SEC
enroll course

A Free Guide to Kickstart Your Back-End Engineering Career at FAANG+

From the interview process and career path to interview questions and salary details — learn everything you need to know about Back-End Engineering careers at top tech companies.
Register for webinar
It's Free

Interview Strategy and Success

Interview Questions

Career Path

Salary and Levels at FAANG

Frequently Asked Questions

What to Expect at Full Stack Development Interviews?

Initial technical screening: This usually involves a coding round and a discussion of your past Full Stack projects. While discussing projects, conceptual questions on the Full Stack domain, frameworks used, etc., are asked. You can also expect a 90-minutes long online assessment of your programming skills consisting of three coding challenges similar to Leetcode. In each challenge, you will be tested on Data Structures and Algorithms. It is important that you write compiling code and pass the majority of the test cases.‍ The Full Stack interview questions on coding are typically at an easy/medium level on Leetcode. On-site interview: It usually has 4-6 rounds, including one-on-one interviews and panel discussions. You can expect these rounds:
1
2-3 coding rounds:
Depending on the total years of experience, you will go through 2-3 coding (DSA-based) rounds. These rounds will have coding challenges to test your knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, and OOP. During the problem-solving stage, you will be asked about test cases, time/space complexity, and ways to improve the solution. Using an online coding practice website like Leetcode to prepare for these interview questions on tech programming can be extremely beneficial.
2
Full Stack/Web Fundamentals round:
Test for knowledge of Full Stack concepts. You’ll be asked to solve problems for different scenarios. This could be integrating with an existing API or looking for a bug in an existing codebase.
3
System design round:
  • For Full Stack roles at Tier-1 companies, there will usually either be a front-end or back-end system design round. You may be allowed to choose depending on the role you’re applying for.
  • Scalable system design round: General scalable architecture system design questions. This usually involves designing a scalable back-end service with cloud architecture.
  • Full Stack system design round: The solution for the design problem is evaluated on performance, accessibility, and modularity. You may also be asked to develop certain features from scratch; a strong understanding of your choice of frameworks will come in handy here. This can be designing a UI that takes in data from an API and modifies it to display to the user.
4
Behavioral round:
This round focuses on criteria like leadership and collaboration skills. You can expect questions related to job experience, discussions on past projects, and open-ended questions to gauge whether you’re a “good fit.”

Full Stack Developer Interview Questions

Full Stack developers need to do both back-end and front-end tasks. As you’d expect, the Full Stack Software Engineer interview questions include both front-end and back-end topics to assess if you’re the right fit. Want to check your current Full Stack Developer interview preparation? Take a jab at these Full Stack Engineering interview questions:
1
Full Stack Developer Interview Questions on Coding
As a Full Stack developer, a lot of your time and effort will go into mastering Data Structures and Algorithms. Excellence and skill in coding are absolutely essential as that is most of your job. While there are other factors that contribute to the hiring call, you simply can’t be hired if you don’t clear coding rounds. You should have experience with these Full Stack developer interview questions (some of these are interview questions for senior Full Stack engineers):
If you’re an experienced Full Stack developer, our article on Full Stack Developer System Design questions will also be helpful for you.
2
Domain-Specific Full Stack Developer Interview Questions
Let us now look at some domain-specific questions asked in Full stack interviews. See if you can answer these Full Stack developer interview questions:
What are the latest trends in Full Stack Web Development?
What are some Stack Developer tools that you’ve worked with?
Explain DevOps, Pair Programming, and data attributes.
Explain Long Polling.
What is an Application server, and what is a RESTful API?
What is Event Bubbling and Capturing in JavaScript?
Distinguish between Server-side Scripting and Client-side Scripting.
How can you enhance your website load time and performance?
Explain the difference between Normalization and Denormalization.
What is Callback hell, and how to fix it?
State the success factors for successive integration.
What is your favorite coding language, and why?
What is the most important quality in a Full Stack developer?
What is the most important quality in a Full Stack developer?
How to prevent a bot from scraping a publicly accessible API?
State the differences between REST and GraphQL.
Explain referential transparency in functional programming.
Explain the architectural designs primarily used to design applications.
How can you share code between files?
What is the difference between Composition and Inheritance? Which would you use and why?
How can we enhance the scalability and efficiency of a website?
Explain multithreading and continuous integration.
3
Full Stack Developer Interview Questions on Behavioral Skills
Behavioral interview questions serve to assess cultural fit, communication skills, and leadership qualities. Try answering these Full Stack developer interview questions and see if your answers align with the culture and values of your target company:
Tell us about a time when you received criticism about your work and how you handled it.
If you have to deliver negative feedback to members of your development team, how would you do it?
Tell me about your favorite development project to date and what it was like from start to finish.
Tell me about the largest web application you have ever worked on. What coding were you responsible for?
What’s your preferred type of development environment?
What do you think contributes to a successful project?
How do you keep up with the latest technologies and trends?
Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone difficult. How did you handle it?
What is the most difficult change you’ve encountered in your career?
How do you handle situations where there is a lot of tension between you and a colleague?

Full Stack Developer Career

Let’s take a look at the Full Stack developer role in more detail now. It’s important to have clarity on the role requirements, levels and career roadmap, salary, and interview processes associated with the Full Stack developer role. It will help you decide if the Full Stack developer is the right role for you.
1
Full stack engineer/developer job descriptions include both front-end and back-end related responsibilities
Full stack developer job descriptions include both front-end and back-end related re sponsibilities. Needless to say, Full Stack Developer jobs require skill in both front-end and back-end technologies. You need to create an impressive Full Stack developer portfolio to land your dream Full Stack developer job.
Front-end related tasks in Full Stack developer jobs often include:
Developing new user-facing features.
Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
Creating efficient and reusable front-end systems/libraries that drive complex web applications.
Collaborating with product designers, product managers, and software engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
Identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues.
Back-end related tasks in Full Stack software engineer jobs often include:
Designing and implementing APIs & business logic.
Designing and coding for databases.
Optimizing the back-end logic.
Creating efficient and reusable Micro-services.
Collaborating with product designers, product managers, and software engineers to deliver compelling products.
Identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues.
2
Full Stack Developer Career Roadmap
In a FAANG+ company, the career progression for the Full Stack developer role is:
SWE I / SWE II – Web Development (Full Stack) → SWE III – Web Development (Full Stack) → Senior SWE – Web Development (Full Stack) → Staff SWE – Web Development (Full Stack) or Tech Lead/EM → Senior Staff SWE or EM/Director → Principal Engineer or Director/VP

Full Stack Developer Salary and Levels at FAANG

Companies use levels to signify the increase in experience, knowledge, and responsibilities associated with the job description.
Generally, Full Stack software developers are divided into the following levels at FAANG+:‍
Facebook Full Stack Developer Salary
E3 (entry-level) → E4 → E5 → E6 → E7 → E8 (equivalent to Director; D1)
Amazon Full Stack Developer Salary
L4 (SDE I) → L5 (SDE II) → L6 (SDE III) → L7 (Principal SDE) → L8 (Senior Principal SDE) → L10 (Distinguished Engineer)
Netflix Full Stack Developer Salary
Unlike other FAANG+ companies, there is only one level on the ladder of progression for software engineers. The company strictly hires only experienced employees; thus, the Netflix Senior Software Engineer position is the only level.
Google Full Stack Developer Salary
L3 → L4 → L5 → L6 → L7 (Senior Staff Software Engineer) → L8 (Principal Software Engineer) → L9 (Distinguished Software Engineer) → L10 (Google Fellow) → L11 (Google Senior Fellow)
Salary Details of Full Stack Developer at Other Tier-1 Companies
Like for every role, a Full Stack Engineer’s salary varies based on experience and responsibilities to ensure that a senior Full Stack software engineer’s salary is aligned with the value they are adding. Let’s take a quick look at how the Full Stack software engineer’s salary varies with the job levels.
You can learn more about more related topics on our companies page.

FAQs on Full Stack Development Interview Course

Full stack developers are highly skilled in front-end and back-end technologies. They code for both front-end and back-end and aim to do so in low turnaround time, with zero bugs. They must also have an understanding of the whole picture to create a seamless experience for the user.
As a Full Stack developer, you need to know JavaScript, CSS, HTML, modern JavaScript frameworks like React/Angular, back-end tools, and technologies like Java/Spring, Python/Django, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, REST APIs, etc. A good understanding of web performance and workings of browsers and DOM is required. Successful Full Stack developers also tend to have experience with unit, integration, end-to-end testing and experience working cross-functionally with product and design.
Yes. Full Stack web development is a subset of software engineering and includes using both front-end and back-end technologies. In contrast, front-end developers focus only on front-end technologies, and back-end developers focus only on back-end technologies.
A Full Stack developer is highly skilled in both back-end and front-end development technologies. Full Stack developers are indispensable to the development of software applications and solutions. Their absence would make the development process much slower. Having people who know both front-end and back-end development helps make sure everything runs smoothly.

How to enroll for the Full Stack Development Interview course?

Learn more about Interview Kickstart and the Full Stack Development interview course by joining the free webinar hosted by Ryan Valles, co-founder of Interview Kickstart.
Register for webinar
It's Free

Next webinar starts in

00
DAYS
:
00
HR
:
00
MINS
:
00
SEC
enroll course
© Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved.

Register for our webinar

How to Nail your next Technical Interview

  • 1 hour
Loading_icon
Loading...
1 Enter details
2 Select slot
By sharing your contact details, you agree to our privacy policy.

Select a Date

Time slots

Time Zone: