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Given a a roomba like vacuum with a limited APIs like turn left, turn right, go forward, clean, detect clean area, how would you ensure you have traversed and cleaned an entire room. Bonus: how would you optimize to save energy?
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at FICO

3.8
Nov 9, 2017

Given a a roomba like vacuum with a limited APIs like turn left, turn right, go forward, clean, detect clean area, how would you ensure you have traversed and cleaned an entire room. Bonus: how would you optimize to save energy?

HR Round: Are you fine to move to Mumbai? 100% sure? People are ditching us after the interview so want to confirm? CTO Round: Design IRCTC's DataBase for search? - CTO doesn't have an understanding of NO-SQL. So just cribbing on SQL and query. Tell me about your resume? - Not did homework, a possible cause is he don't know multiple technologies and design strategies.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at WhiteHat Jr

3.3
Jun 7, 2020

HR Round: Are you fine to move to Mumbai? 100% sure? People are ditching us after the interview so want to confirm? CTO Round: Design IRCTC's DataBase for search? - CTO doesn't have an understanding of NO-SQL. So just cribbing on SQL and query. Tell me about your resume? - Not did homework, a possible cause is he don't know multiple technologies and design strategies.

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