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2 hrs long. 1 hour with 2 software developers. Talked about my past experience and some about the projects that they are working on. Asked for an algorithmic questions and asked to write the code. Not too difficult, was done in about 15-20 minutes. Talked about edge cases, what could go wrong etc. 1 hour with VP engineering and another SW developer. Asked several behavioral and other types of questions geared on my recent projects.
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Software Engineer - Backend Expert

Interviewed at Vidyard

3.7
Nov 12, 2015

2 hrs long. 1 hour with 2 software developers. Talked about my past experience and some about the projects that they are working on. Asked for an algorithmic questions and asked to write the code. Not too difficult, was done in about 15-20 minutes. Talked about edge cases, what could go wrong etc. 1 hour with VP engineering and another SW developer. Asked several behavioral and other types of questions geared on my recent projects.

Write a program to find the longest path in a 2D array, given that you can move from point A to point B if and only if A<=B and A, B are adjacent and share the same row or column. The allowed time was about 20 to 30 min.
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Software Engineer, Backend

Interviewed at Uber

3.7
Jan 24, 2019

Write a program to find the longest path in a 2D array, given that you can move from point A to point B if and only if A<=B and A, B are adjacent and share the same row or column. The allowed time was about 20 to 30 min.

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