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Architecture of my previous projects. Mostly LC Easy/Medium (Interval problems, Graphs and Trees, can't be more specific due to NDA). Challenging behavioral questions. Understanding of design, tests and code review. Questions on REST Api design patterns, basic security concepts.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
Feb 25, 2020

Architecture of my previous projects. Mostly LC Easy/Medium (Interval problems, Graphs and Trees, can't be more specific due to NDA). Challenging behavioral questions. Understanding of design, tests and code review. Questions on REST Api design patterns, basic security concepts.

The most challenging (and interesting) question was about a strategy for finding signal in a noisy and poorly understood data set. Asking a software engineer a data science question really stretches the mental muscles.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2
Jul 17, 2011

The most challenging (and interesting) question was about a strategy for finding signal in a noisy and poorly understood data set. Asking a software engineer a data science question really stretches the mental muscles.

questions were mostly based on computer networks, operating systems and dbms. No questions at all on programming or data structures. Only theoretical knowledge is not sufficient, questions were mostly application oriented.
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Member of Technical Staff [QA]

Interviewed at Commvault

3.8
Aug 11, 2016

questions were mostly based on computer networks, operating systems and dbms. No questions at all on programming or data structures. Only theoretical knowledge is not sufficient, questions were mostly application oriented.

Nothing as such. Just needed to explain basic concepts and algorithms. The toughest question was: Given n number of points in a Cartesian space, devise a method to find the minimum distance between any set of two points.

Nothing as such. Just needed to explain basic concepts and algorithms. The toughest question was: Given n number of points in a Cartesian space, devise a method to find the minimum distance between any set of two points.

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