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Senior Software Applications Engineer Interview Questions
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In 2nd Round First Part - Critical thinking questions(3) including 2 riddles like 'A ping pong ball tangled in a narrow pipe of half meter long embedded on a concreate. how to get the ball out when a paddle, some chewing gum and water provided' / 'A man and his son were in an car accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was rushed into surgery. The surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my son!" How is this possible?' Second Part - Customer centric questions (2 or 3) like 'when a client reported an incident with urgent and you couldn't still look in to it and the client tag you and asking for a update how would you respond ' Third Part - questions from C# code (if condition for an array with a return value function) like what would be the output for a given input , Would this code run if not how could you implement it to make it runnable (have to re-write the code) Fourth Part - SQL/ schema given , query (with a join clause) out put , construct a query joining three tables for a given criteria - use with group by and having clause, optional query to build for a advance scenario.
The process was pretty complex and it was simplified a bit since then, and it was pretty impressing. They don't do any silly gotcha coding questions. They do test basic CS fundamentals pretty heavily, but they are smart about it. Mobile platform questions. Simple coding question in Java, Objective-C and C++, questions about platform API (basics to check if you really code in it), and multithreading concepts. Take home assignment - optimization problem (I believe they don't do it any more) with elements of OOD. On-site coding round (leetcode style puzzles, basic CS concepts, data structures, threading, memory management, code review). On-site design round. Designing complete mobile app, frontend and backend (architecture, no visuals). Discussing various constraints, changing requirements as you go, to check if your design is adaptable. On-site company culture fit round with manager. HR round with compensation expectations. On-site team culture fit round with direct team lead.
Hacker rank multiple choice questions - C#, OOPS etc,
Run-off the mill JS/HTML/CSS questions. I think anyone with above average web skills should be able to answer them. Whiteboard algorithm problems. Go with it if you've memorized the Cormen book.
Programming exercise was good- you had 1:15 hr in XCode to write a simple iOS application with data persistence, implement a shake motion gesture, localize it into french and spanish, and ensure the UI resized correctly. Then you had to write the test cases for your app. All told if you knew what you were doing you should have the basics done in under an hour. From there you can spend the rest of your time making the UI pretty.
Java: What is your java level (1 to 10)? What is J2EE Container? Do you have an experience of multithreading?
Other Technical question: What is your Linux level (1 to 10)?, What is ETL? Do you have an experience of Websphere?
Class design and modeling
On the first round it was some regular question about what I've done and what is my interest.
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