Go Interview Questions
Go interview questions on goroutines, channels, cancellation with context and the language's deliberate simplicity.
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The short version
Why the Go interview is hard
Go interviews centre on concurrency. Goroutines and channels are easy to start and easy to leak, so the questions concentrate on lifecycle: who stops this, and how does it know to stop?
What to expect
The rounds you should rehearse
Goroutine lifecycle
who owns it, and what guarantees it terminates.
Channels
buffered versus unbuffered, and the deadlock you just wrote.
Context
cancellation and deadlines propagated through a call tree.
Avoid these
The mistakes that quietly sink candidates
Starting goroutines with no path to termination, which is the classic Go leak.
Treating errors as noise instead of handling them, in a language deliberately built around explicit errors.
Importing patterns from other languages rather than writing idiomatic Go.
Reading the questions is not practicing them.
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