Interview Question | Software Engineer | What do you believe are the most significant parts to focus on while performing a code review of another team?

Code review is an unavoidable process to the software development process, despite the size of the team. This question is to evaluate your knowledge about code review, problem solving skills, critical thinking aptitudes, eye for details, and if you are able to make an overall view of the project.

Everybody has their own coding style and each engineer or team will have prerequisites that are explicit to their codebase. Successful code reviews often follow a checklist. Following are few of them:

• The product passes automated and manual testing 
• Code follows appropriate shows and is straightforward 
• Code isn’t copied 
• No adversely named boolean variables
• Examine methods with boolean parameters
• Blocks of code inside loops are as small as possible
• No memory spills

An ideal answer would be:

“I check for security, functionality, and readability. I would also be checking if:

• The code is simple and straightforward
• It is jumbled, bloated, or wasteful
• What number of lines of unwanted code I will need to remove or redo
• The code is strong enough to block any vulnerabilities 
• The code meets regulatory standards and prerequisites have been met.”