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1. Write program to read n lines from file (checking of efficient code) 2. Given list of list as input write a program to read elements from list and put data from list to a file. Interviewer kept increasing complexity 3. Given N interviewers and M candidates. Write program which can generate calendar for each interviewers. Constraint, each candidate should have 4-5 rounds with unique interviews to complete hiring process. 4. Question about boot loading (primary/secondary loading) and so on.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Oct 4, 2020

1. Write program to read n lines from file (checking of efficient code) 2. Given list of list as input write a program to read elements from list and put data from list to a file. Interviewer kept increasing complexity 3. Given N interviewers and M candidates. Write program which can generate calendar for each interviewers. Constraint, each candidate should have 4-5 rounds with unique interviews to complete hiring process. 4. Question about boot loading (primary/secondary loading) and so on.

In the 1 st round: (a) Find count of longest increasing subsequence in the given array of integers in O(n) time complexity (b) Find the list of prime numbers between 1 to n (c) Find highest salary of an employee given 3 tables: Employee ( E_ID, D_ID,E_NAME), DEPARTMENT ( D_ID and D_NAME) and SALARY ( E_ID and Salary) and highest salary of employee per department In the 2nd round: How will you design a system (using Restful Web Service and any other design algorithm) when there is a feed of events coming in for <Person> object type which queries a Server hub for a linux box. Each linux box has a specified limit on memory and CPU (not same for all) and you need to optimize each person with his/her usage and find the count of number of logins In the 3rd round: (a) Find the frequency of difference from the median for a given column in a database (b) Find the count of palindromes given a String
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5★
Apr 9, 2018

In the 1 st round: (a) Find count of longest increasing subsequence in the given array of integers in O(n) time complexity (b) Find the list of prime numbers between 1 to n (c) Find highest salary of an employee given 3 tables: Employee ( E_ID, D_ID,E_NAME), DEPARTMENT ( D_ID and D_NAME) and SALARY ( E_ID and Salary) and highest salary of employee per department In the 2nd round: How will you design a system (using Restful Web Service and any other design algorithm) when there is a feed of events coming in for <Person> object type which queries a Server hub for a linux box. Each linux box has a specified limit on memory and CPU (not same for all) and you need to optimize each person with his/her usage and find the count of number of logins In the 3rd round: (a) Find the frequency of difference from the median for a given column in a database (b) Find the count of palindromes given a String

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