Computing

1. Your team’s web service slows down sharply as the number of users grows. How would you approach it?

2. How do you feel about formally proving that an algorithm is correct or analysing its complexity?

3. You need to choose between a relational database, a graph database and a document store for a new system. What do you do?

4. Your supervisor suggests a research project in distributed systems, machine learning or programming languages, ending with a paper. How do you react?

5. A teammate’s pull request works, but the code is hard to read and has no tests. What do you do?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll build software projects with graduates from many countries. How do you see that?

7. How do you feel about concurrency – threads, race conditions and deadlocks?

8. A new technology appears that claims it will change how software is built. What’s your approach?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Computing?