By Muhammad Ali Mughal · Last updated 24 October 2026

Most lists of Laravel interview questions test whether you've read the docs: "What is Artisan?", "What is a migration?". Interviewers who've shipped Laravel apps ask something else. They want to hear what broke, how you found it and what you changed. The best way to prepare is to answer each question with a mechanism and a real example, and to be ready to show it in code.

I'm Muhammad Ali Mughal, a principal software engineer with 9+ years of PHP/Laravel and .NET work. At Loop Origin I've built Laravel apps for e-commerce, logistics and SaaS clients,. Below are 15 questions I'd ask a mid-level or senior Laravel developer, with short answers that show real experience, plus a small test I ran to back one of them up.

Laravel interview questions on Eloquent and the database

1. What is the N+1 query problem, and how do you fix it?

Looping over models and touching a relationship runs one query for the list plus one per row.…