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Technical: 1. https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problem/403525256396727/ 2. http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-ways-reach-nth-stair/ 3. In english alphabet "a-z and A-Z" letters. As we know all numbers can be represented by a fibonacci number. 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 Suppose 6 = 5 + 1, can be encoded as 1001 16 = 13 + 3 = 100100 4 = 3 + 1 = 101 Similarly, all the letters "a-z and A-Z" should be converted to ASCII number then convert them to Fibonacci encoded number Then read decode them back to origonal character. H E L L O ASCII values of all the letters from (HELLO) Then covert them to corresponding binary values e.g H = 72 = 55 + 13 + 3 + 1 = 100100101 And add "1" (number 1) to end of all charcter to find out the number ends there. So H = 100100101 + 1 = 1001001011 (Not mathematical add, string add or append) 4. What you like to do in leisure time? 5. What you have done something interesting beyond your scope? 6. How do you manage a day in your place when you are heavily loaded? 7. Why are you looking for a change? ....
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Honeywell

4.1★
Mar 27, 2017

Technical: 1. https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problem/403525256396727/ 2. http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-ways-reach-nth-stair/ 3. In english alphabet "a-z and A-Z" letters. As we know all numbers can be represented by a fibonacci number. 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 Suppose 6 = 5 + 1, can be encoded as 1001 16 = 13 + 3 = 100100 4 = 3 + 1 = 101 Similarly, all the letters "a-z and A-Z" should be converted to ASCII number then convert them to Fibonacci encoded number Then read decode them back to origonal character. H E L L O ASCII values of all the letters from (HELLO) Then covert them to corresponding binary values e.g H = 72 = 55 + 13 + 3 + 1 = 100100101 And add "1" (number 1) to end of all charcter to find out the number ends there. So H = 100100101 + 1 = 1001001011 (Not mathematical add, string add or append) 4. What you like to do in leisure time? 5. What you have done something interesting beyond your scope? 6. How do you manage a day in your place when you are heavily loaded? 7. Why are you looking for a change? ....

A rustic village contains one million married couples and no children. Each couple has exactly one child per year. Each couple wants a girl, but also wants to minimize the number of children they have, so they will continue to have children until they have their first girl. Assume that children are equally likely to be born male or female. Let p(t) be the percentage of children that are female at the end of year t. What is p(t)? "Can't tell" is a potential answer if you don't have sufficient information.
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Senior Java Developer

Interviewed at Acuitus

4.4★
Apr 6, 2010

A rustic village contains one million married couples and no children. Each couple has exactly one child per year. Each couple wants a girl, but also wants to minimize the number of children they have, so they will continue to have children until they have their first girl. Assume that children are equally likely to be born male or female. Let p(t) be the percentage of children that are female at the end of year t. What is p(t)? "Can't tell" is a potential answer if you don't have sufficient information.

I was asked to write a program to find common items between 2 lists.I used java to write the program. I wrote the program which was iterating the smaller array list and used contains. The Hiring manager argues with me saying that the code is not efficient enough because 'contains' method on arraylist would lead to o(n) and that would result in O(m*N)(which is incorrect) In the interview, I was not able to google it and I was taken aback when he was talking so assertively as I assumed that he understands java. However, after I hung up the phone I realized that I am indeed right and that the algorithm I created was very efficient. The interviewer came to the interview with a view to reject me. Its a waste of time. They should let subject mattter experts do the interviews, not the people with background in c/C++ interview java guys or the other way round. The hiring manager seemed very professorial background. I tried to tell recruiter to let them know the problem, but I do not think even she has any clue on how to approach.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Tripadvisor

3.6★
Feb 5, 2015

I was asked to write a program to find common items between 2 lists.I used java to write the program. I wrote the program which was iterating the smaller array list and used contains. The Hiring manager argues with me saying that the code is not efficient enough because 'contains' method on arraylist would lead to o(n) and that would result in O(m*N)(which is incorrect) In the interview, I was not able to google it and I was taken aback when he was talking so assertively as I assumed that he understands java. However, after I hung up the phone I realized that I am indeed right and that the algorithm I created was very efficient. The interviewer came to the interview with a view to reject me. Its a waste of time. They should let subject mattter experts do the interviews, not the people with background in c/C++ interview java guys or the other way round. The hiring manager seemed very professorial background. I tried to tell recruiter to let them know the problem, but I do not think even she has any clue on how to approach.

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