Study Guide for Technical Interview at Megan Financial

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Study Guide for Technical Interview at Megan Financial

C# Language Features

• C# 10-12 innovations: Record types, global using directives, file-scoped namespaces, null handling improvements
• Asynchronous programming: async/await patterns, Task vs ValueTask
• LINQ: Advanced queries, performance considerations
• Pattern matching: Switch expressions, property patterns
• Generics: Constraints, covariance/contravariance
• Memory management: Span, Memory, ref structs

Azure CI/CD Pipeline

• Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions for .NET applications
• Build automation with MSBuild, Cake, or NUKE
• Test automation in pipelines
• Deployment strategies: Blue/green, canary, feature flags
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform

Network Engineering

• HTTP/HTTPS protocols: Headers, caching mechanisms
• API patterns: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
• Network security: TLS, certificates, connection handling
• Load balancing concepts and implementation in Azure
• API gateways like Azure API Management

Azure Cloud Infrastructure

• App Service vs Azure Functions vs Container Apps
• Azure SQL and Cosmos DB implementation
• Azure Service Bus and message-based architectures
• Azure Monitor and application insights
• Azure Key Vault integration

Secret's and Credential Management & .Net Security Best practices

• Azure Key Vault integration with .NET applications
• User-secrets for development environments
• Managed Identities for secure service authentication
• Connection string best practices
• Certificate management

Identity and Access Management Review (IDAM)

• Azure AD B2C/B2B implementation
• Microsoft Identity Platform and MSAL
• OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect flows
• JWT token handling and validation
• Claims-based authorization

.NET Best Practices & Current Industry standards:

• .NET 8/9 features and advantages
• Minimal APIs vs controller-based approaches
• Worker Services and background processing
• Dependency Injection patterns and service lifetimes
• Middleware implementation i.e redirects for auth0, look into duende

Front-End Technologies

• Blazor: Server vs WebAssembly, component lifecycle
• Razor Pages: Model binding, tag helpers
• Authentication using federated like Auth0
• React: Hooks, context API, state management

Other General Review

1. Practice system design questions related to financial applications
2. Show Dont Tell Ship a .net 9 mvp before technical interview Ideally using azure if I still have free credits.