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Given a chain of medical shops and a head office. Design a system for headoffice to find- 1- Sales Speed of each shop 2- Type to stock gets sold at various locations .. etc In 1 hour they expect you to design APIs, Write Stored Procs, Connect DB and fetch and insert data and handle all corner case scenarios and also write Unit test cases
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Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Interviewed at Honeywell

4.1
Feb 7, 2019

Given a chain of medical shops and a head office. Design a system for headoffice to find- 1- Sales Speed of each shop 2- Type to stock gets sold at various locations .. etc In 1 hour they expect you to design APIs, Write Stored Procs, Connect DB and fetch and insert data and handle all corner case scenarios and also write Unit test cases

You are given a list of strings. Each string can be repeated any number of times randomly in that list. But there are 20 such unique strings. Provide the top String, repeated most. If tie happens then return the first String from the decreasing order of those tied strings.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at ADP

3.8
Dec 5, 2019

You are given a list of strings. Each string can be repeated any number of times randomly in that list. But there are 20 such unique strings. Provide the top String, repeated most. If tie happens then return the first String from the decreasing order of those tied strings.

Round 1: Question 1: You are given a string : sfdgjdg3e67jgjyg456 Fetch all numbers & provide their sum. Write the code such that if there is any slight change of requirements then there should be minimum code change for that. Question 2 : Remove duplicates from the array of elements. Question 3 : Add the given 2 numbers & these numbers are so large that can't be represented by any numeric type.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at ServiceNow

4.1
Dec 20, 2019

Round 1: Question 1: You are given a string : sfdgjdg3e67jgjyg456 Fetch all numbers & provide their sum. Write the code such that if there is any slight change of requirements then there should be minimum code change for that. Question 2 : Remove duplicates from the array of elements. Question 3 : Add the given 2 numbers & these numbers are so large that can't be represented by any numeric type.

1. Singleton Design pattern 2. Virtual function mechanism 3. function overloading in inheritence 4. Copy Constructor, why it is required 5. Sort liked list containing 0 1, 2 6. Apples, Oranges, Apples+Oranges in carets. Labels are wrong . Pick one fruit from any caret and correct the labels. 7. Pure Virtual Functions 8. Abstract class and its use And in Second Telephonic round they asked 1. Singleton Design Pattern (how it is destructed, thread safe, where to put mutex) 2. Robot to traves the several dots on a paper. ( I Think it can be done by minimum spannnig tree) 3. fibonacci series implementation 4. difference between composition and aggregation 5. use case of private inheritence But they asked me to give them a exact code snipped on phone which is not possible. :D :D
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Ciena

4.1
Apr 1, 2016

1. Singleton Design pattern 2. Virtual function mechanism 3. function overloading in inheritence 4. Copy Constructor, why it is required 5. Sort liked list containing 0 1, 2 6. Apples, Oranges, Apples+Oranges in carets. Labels are wrong . Pick one fruit from any caret and correct the labels. 7. Pure Virtual Functions 8. Abstract class and its use And in Second Telephonic round they asked 1. Singleton Design Pattern (how it is destructed, thread safe, where to put mutex) 2. Robot to traves the several dots on a paper. ( I Think it can be done by minimum spannnig tree) 3. fibonacci series implementation 4. difference between composition and aggregation 5. use case of private inheritence But they asked me to give them a exact code snipped on phone which is not possible. :D :D

First Round : Got a call from HR after applying the position around a week ,discussion around the position requirements and salary expectations Second Round : Discussion with one of the tech lead ,around the skills mentioned in the resume Third Round : Discussion with two different people(mid -senior ) decent discussion professional engineers
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Wells Fargo

3.5
Feb 27, 2023

First Round : Got a call from HR after applying the position around a week ,discussion around the position requirements and salary expectations Second Round : Discussion with one of the tech lead ,around the skills mentioned in the resume Third Round : Discussion with two different people(mid -senior ) decent discussion professional engineers

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