Crack the Python Developer Interview

Ordered by what interviewers actually ask.

Most Python interview guides list questions in textbook order. This one orders them by how often they are genuinely asked - so the first thing you study is the first thing you will be asked.

175 Questions across thirteen tiers, plus three appendices on learning, practice and interview day.
Tier 1 is what comes up in almost every interview. The middle tiers separate a candidate who knows the syntax from one who understands the language. The final tiers are the advanced material that makes a candidate memorable.

Inside this book:

• Tier 1 - Core Fundamentals (Q1-32)
• Tier 2 - Intermediate Python (Q33-62)
• Tier 3 - Coding-Round Classics (Q63-78)
• Tier 4 - APIs, FastAPI & Databases (Q79-98)
• Tier 5 - Tooling, Testing & Advanced (Q99-110)
• Tiers 6-12 - Built-ins, NumPy, Flask, Scraping, Setup (Q111-158)
• Tier 13 - Django, FastAPI & Web Development (Q159-175)
• Appendices - Learning, Practice & Interview Day (A-C)

What you get:

• A direct answer you can say out loud
• Plain-English explanation of why the feature exists
• Executed, verified code - not code that merely looks right
• The gotcha or trade-off that makes an answer memorable
• The follow-up questions an interviewer asks next

Covers: Core Python · data structures · OOP · decorators · generators · the GIL · concurrency · memory management · coding-round problems · REST and FastAPI · Pydantic · SQL and databases · testing · Git · NumPy · Flask and Django · web scraping · Django ORM · migrations · Jinja2 templates · Docker · deployment

Written by a software professional with over twenty years of industry experience - and built for people at the start of theirs.