Development Engineer Interview Questions

37,122 development engineer interview questions shared by candidates

1: Quite simple question, calendar related calculation. 2: Something close to binary search, find the missing number from consecutive integers. e.g., 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, should return 3. A little tricky for boundary conditions. Another simple question but cannot remember. 3: Double linked list insert and delete, with some special conditions. Simple. Another OOD question. 4: Something like leetcode jump game. But the jump length depends on the last jump made. For example, in step N, the man jumped M, the next step he can jump M-1, M or M+1.
avatar

Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jan 23, 2013

1: Quite simple question, calendar related calculation. 2: Something close to binary search, find the missing number from consecutive integers. e.g., 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, should return 3. A little tricky for boundary conditions. Another simple question but cannot remember. 3: Double linked list insert and delete, with some special conditions. Simple. Another OOD question. 4: Something like leetcode jump game. But the jump length depends on the last jump made. For example, in step N, the man jumped M, the next step he can jump M-1, M or M+1.

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process
avatar

Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 13, 2013

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process

"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)
avatar

Software Development Engineer - IT

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 10, 2013

"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.
Mar 7, 2014

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.

Viewing 691 - 700 interview questions

Glassdoor has 37,122 interview questions and reports from Development engineer interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.