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Interviewer didn't even bother to share if this was a technical or hr or immigration round. Few questions on my profile while cribbing continuously about the resume format being hard to read (it was a 1 page resume!!). Question on immigration, and HR question and last 10 minutes was technical round, in which he asked about; 1. java 2.0 style list ie List l = new Arraylist(), and add values and guess what it and print. I don't think they know that java 9 will be out soon. I asked him if this code compiles fine, he very rudely moved on to the next question. 2. Writing a dynamic programm question. 3. A question on Java polymorphism. 4. Abrupt ending of interview that would leave you speechless.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at VIVA USA

2.8★
Aug 30, 2017

Interviewer didn't even bother to share if this was a technical or hr or immigration round. Few questions on my profile while cribbing continuously about the resume format being hard to read (it was a 1 page resume!!). Question on immigration, and HR question and last 10 minutes was technical round, in which he asked about; 1. java 2.0 style list ie List l = new Arraylist(), and add values and guess what it and print. I don't think they know that java 9 will be out soon. I asked him if this code compiles fine, he very rudely moved on to the next question. 2. Writing a dynamic programm question. 3. A question on Java polymorphism. 4. Abrupt ending of interview that would leave you speechless.

The word problem and sample data were ill-defined, but what they were looking for was this: Given an ordered list, find elements i and j that have the largest difference (element[i]-element[j]). Constraints: j>i and time complexity O(n).
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at HERE Technologies

3.9★
Jan 30, 2016

The word problem and sample data were ill-defined, but what they were looking for was this: Given an ordered list, find elements i and j that have the largest difference (element[i]-element[j]). Constraints: j>i and time complexity O(n).

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