An interview answer bank: real technical questions from interviews I sat, with the answers I would give. Not a course, and not a scraped question dump from the internet. Each question is its own file.
46 questions · PHP 8.5 · Laravel 13
Read each answer in this order (same icons in every file):
| Section | What to do | |
|---|---|---|
| 🔑 | Key terms | Words you will say in the interview |
| 🧠 | Analogy | The picture if they say “explain it simply” |
| 📘 | Official | How the docs write it (PHP Manual, Laravel, MDN, …) |
| 💼 | In production | The same idea in a real backend |
| Watch out | The trap that fails this question | |
| 💬 | Follow-up | What they usually ask next |
Listed in study order — read top to bottom.
| Topic | Questions | |
|---|---|---|
| 🐘 | PHP - Basics | 4 |
| 🧩 | OOP | 16 |
| 🌐 | HTTP & REST API | 9 |
| 🚀 | Laravel - Basics | 10 |
| 🗄️ | Database Design | 1 |
| 🔒 | Security | 2 |
| 🧪 | Testing | 1 |
| 🔀 | Git & Workflow | 1 |
| ♻️ | Refactoring & Best Practices | 1 |
| ⚡ | Performance & Optimization | 1 |
Uneven counts are intentional: only questions I was actually asked — not a missing curriculum.