🎯 Go Interview Preparation
Prepare for Go programming interviews with common questions and coding challenges.
Common Interview Topics
Concurrency
- Goroutines vs Threads
- Channel patterns
- Select statement
- Sync package
- Race conditions
Memory Management
- Stack vs Heap
- Garbage collection
- Memory leaks
- Pointer usage
- Escape analysis
Best Practices
- Error handling
- Interface design
- Package structure
- Testing strategies
- Performance optimization
Sample Interview Questions
- What's the difference between a goroutine and a thread?
- Explain buffered vs unbuffered channels
- How does Go's garbage collector work?
- What are the uses of the empty interface?
- How do you handle errors in Go?
- Explain the context package and its uses
- What's the difference between make and new?
- How do you prevent race conditions?
- Explain Go's memory model
- How do you implement a singleton in Go?
Coding Challenges
- Implement a thread-safe LRU cache
- Build a rate limiter
- Create a concurrent merge sort
- Design a connection pool
- Implement a pub-sub system