Hackathon Behavioral and Technical Questions

Which quality is most important when working in a team during a hackathon?

• Dominance

• Collaboration

• Independence

• Criticism

If your team disagrees on the next steps of the project, what should you do?

• Insist on your idea

• Find a middle ground

• Let the majority decide

• Leave the discussion

You discover a bug in your project near the deadline. What's your first step?

• Ignore it

• Inform the team and discuss solutions

• Fix it yourself without consulting

• Remove the feature entirely

What's the best way to approach brainstorming for a hackathon project?

• Assign ideas to team members

• Create a safe space for all ideas

• Use only tried-and-tested solutions

• Follow one person's lead

How do you ensure all team members are contributing equally?

• Regular team check-ins

• Divide work equally at the start

• Allow self-directed contributions

• Ignore unequal contributions

What is the time complexity of searching for an element in a balanced binary search tree (BST)?

• O(1)

• O(log n)

• O(n)

• O(n log n)

Which HTTP status code indicates 'Not Found'?

• 200

• 400

• 404

• 500

In Python, what does the following code return: len([1, 2, [3, 4]])?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What is the primary purpose of a RESTful API?

• File storage

• Interfacing between systems

• Data encryption

• Debugging

In Git, what is the function of git merge?

• Combine changes from multiple branches

• Create a new branch

• Delete a branch

• Clone a repository