Sr Staff Software Engineer Interview Questions

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=== TECHNICAL === • I was asked to implement JSON.Stringify. (ehem, ehem, creativity and novelty in the problem to ask!) • I finish that with unit tests in half an hour which later I found was working way better than all the version I could find online in random people's public github accounts. • The interviewer asked me to support recursive loops in Javascript. He didn't even have a working example and it was super-tricky to think about it -- an object having properties to point to the object itself to form a loop of "pointers" in Javascript! I modified my code to cover that too. I tested that and it worked perfect. • And guess what, the feedback (more than a week later) was that there are "some concerns about my Javascript" so they need to have a second phone interview. lol. I could only laugh! I just bailed out and canceled it. Enough is enough.
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Lyft

3.8
Nov 29, 2017

=== TECHNICAL === • I was asked to implement JSON.Stringify. (ehem, ehem, creativity and novelty in the problem to ask!) • I finish that with unit tests in half an hour which later I found was working way better than all the version I could find online in random people's public github accounts. • The interviewer asked me to support recursive loops in Javascript. He didn't even have a working example and it was super-tricky to think about it -- an object having properties to point to the object itself to form a loop of "pointers" in Javascript! I modified my code to cover that too. I tested that and it worked perfect. • And guess what, the feedback (more than a week later) was that there are "some concerns about my Javascript" so they need to have a second phone interview. lol. I could only laugh! I just bailed out and canceled it. Enough is enough.

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