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Why are you looking out? Any knowledge of dockers, golang as they work on it 1) intial screening: asked about my work experience and some high level questions on is 2) F2F : 3 rounds 3) Skype:2 rounds Interviewers are friendly and co-operative. HR was following up till everything went well once they got rejection she blindly ignored not even responding to emails. Just at least give some feedback Yaar. I'm not sure what is the criteria for them as I did fairly great in 3 (2 design and one coding, even engineering head was impressed) one coding interview was above average. Other interview was like what is difference between computer and calculator, functional and non functional requirements, one coding and one memory management (handle malloc allocation alligning to 4 byte boundary) Did average in this, not sure if they want all rounds to be great (not even Google thinks this way) Disappointed with HR at the end, do a proper closing if you don't want to move ahead. Design questions are like chat messenger and Twitter Coding questions 1) use queue to implement stack 2) biggest palindrome substring
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Interviewed at Infoblox

4.3★
Jul 26, 2018

Why are you looking out? Any knowledge of dockers, golang as they work on it 1) intial screening: asked about my work experience and some high level questions on is 2) F2F : 3 rounds 3) Skype:2 rounds Interviewers are friendly and co-operative. HR was following up till everything went well once they got rejection she blindly ignored not even responding to emails. Just at least give some feedback Yaar. I'm not sure what is the criteria for them as I did fairly great in 3 (2 design and one coding, even engineering head was impressed) one coding interview was above average. Other interview was like what is difference between computer and calculator, functional and non functional requirements, one coding and one memory management (handle malloc allocation alligning to 4 byte boundary) Did average in this, not sure if they want all rounds to be great (not even Google thinks this way) Disappointed with HR at the end, do a proper closing if you don't want to move ahead. Design questions are like chat messenger and Twitter Coding questions 1) use queue to implement stack 2) biggest palindrome substring

Mostly from the resume. Technical interviewers are more interested on getting details on how to apply those in their area more than evaluating the candidate. Some of the interviewers were rude. Spent nearly a day for the interviews. No response after the process for more than a week!. They didn't even sent a feedback mail!... After I followed up 2 weeks later, online application updated!
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at GE Renewable Energy

4.2★
Oct 16, 2018

Mostly from the resume. Technical interviewers are more interested on getting details on how to apply those in their area more than evaluating the candidate. Some of the interviewers were rude. Spent nearly a day for the interviews. No response after the process for more than a week!. They didn't even sent a feedback mail!... After I followed up 2 weeks later, online application updated!

The coding task is about reading numbers from a CSV file, computing a rolling window statistics (average and maximum) over those numbers, and printing current statistics at every time step. It should be done in O(nlogn) time. To do it data structures like (in Java) TreeMap or PriorityQueue come handy. Unfortunately there's little time to do it (slightly more than an hour). Although I had idea how to do it, I stressed out and I failed to meet the O(nlogn) time in all cases, and only based on it I was rejected.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Box

3.9★
Sep 29, 2023

The coding task is about reading numbers from a CSV file, computing a rolling window statistics (average and maximum) over those numbers, and printing current statistics at every time step. It should be done in O(nlogn) time. To do it data structures like (in Java) TreeMap or PriorityQueue come handy. Unfortunately there's little time to do it (slightly more than an hour). Although I had idea how to do it, I stressed out and I failed to meet the O(nlogn) time in all cases, and only based on it I was rejected.

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