I was contacted by a recruiter via email. From there we set up a date and time for a phone interview later in the week. The interview ran about 20-30 and included the following questions: In languages such as C++ and Java, what is the shorthand for an if statement? When a derived class is instantiated, which constructor is called first that of the parent or child? What is database normalization? When is normalization not desirable? Explain a full-outer join, left/right join. Explain the singleton design pattern/ the factory method design pattern. Explain the waterfall development methodology/ Agile development methodology. Overall the interview questions themselves were fairly easy, there were some topics that I was unfamiliar with at the time though. The interviewer was one of the hiring team's members and was very personable.