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Every question they asked, including the leetcode question, was incredibly fair and relevant to the career. As such, I don't wish to divulge their questions because anyone who is truly prepared for this position should be capable of answering them.
Jul 8, 2020

Every question they asked, including the leetcode question, was incredibly fair and relevant to the career. As such, I don't wish to divulge their questions because anyone who is truly prepared for this position should be capable of answering them.

Q: num_list[1,2,3,4,5] are red numbers, api to return first non-red number in a list (at least I think so... because the interviewer himself seemed rather confused about his own question and kept amending and changing the various details pertaining to what he wanted adding only later that this was a sorted list and then changing other aspects such as no negative integers as I attempted to code what I thought he wanted). I presented a working solution at which point we got the (highly relevant to our daily work and totally stupid) big "O" complexity question that I also answered. And then he proceeded to indicate that he did not even understand how Python does not actually have "integer overflow" ... anyway...
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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Juniper Networks

4.2
Mar 27, 2020

Q: num_list[1,2,3,4,5] are red numbers, api to return first non-red number in a list (at least I think so... because the interviewer himself seemed rather confused about his own question and kept amending and changing the various details pertaining to what he wanted adding only later that this was a sorted list and then changing other aspects such as no negative integers as I attempted to code what I thought he wanted). I presented a working solution at which point we got the (highly relevant to our daily work and totally stupid) big "O" complexity question that I also answered. And then he proceeded to indicate that he did not even understand how Python does not actually have "integer overflow" ... anyway...

The take home exercise was to pull code from a repository, set up a Docker container for an API, and write some automated test code for the highest priority cases I could think of. I also had to write a complete, detailed test plan for the API. The on-site questions were fairly standard behavioral questions to discuss situations where challenges were faced and overcome.
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Senior Software Development Engineer - Test

Interviewed at Hinge Health

3.7
May 19, 2022

The take home exercise was to pull code from a repository, set up a Docker container for an API, and write some automated test code for the highest priority cases I could think of. I also had to write a complete, detailed test plan for the API. The on-site questions were fairly standard behavioral questions to discuss situations where challenges were faced and overcome.

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