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Most of the questions were standard interview questions regarding my past experience and the material I discussed in my presentation. There were further questions regarding why I had chosen my career path, examples of how I've handled a difficult situation, and what are my greatest strengths as well as areas for improvement. There wasn't anything particular tricky. In that sense the interview was straightforward.
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Principal Scientist

Interviewed at Ethicon

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Sep 4, 2010

Most of the questions were standard interview questions regarding my past experience and the material I discussed in my presentation. There were further questions regarding why I had chosen my career path, examples of how I've handled a difficult situation, and what are my greatest strengths as well as areas for improvement. There wasn't anything particular tricky. In that sense the interview was straightforward.

1) Explain Abstraction with examples 2) Explain Encapsulation with examples 3) Why we have to pass a reference in copy constructor 4) How you implement = operator 5) You have 500 MB text file. Write an efficient algorithm to print the occurrence of every unique word. 6) Explain apartment threading in COM 7) Between mutex and critical section, which serialization mechanism is reentrant.
Jul 29, 2012

1) Explain Abstraction with examples 2) Explain Encapsulation with examples 3) Why we have to pass a reference in copy constructor 4) How you implement = operator 5) You have 500 MB text file. Write an efficient algorithm to print the occurrence of every unique word. 6) Explain apartment threading in COM 7) Between mutex and critical section, which serialization mechanism is reentrant.

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