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1- Round1: About Project and then cross question, was asked about Negative acknowledgment. 2- Round2: Technical Round: Take a dynamic array and get median of array, I don't know how he was saying take dynamic array....at the end he said dynamic array means user will give input at the start of program then you have to find, I was surprised. Firstly I solved using PriorityQueue, I thought I will get stream of data, as he said dynamic array and you will get data during as process Second Question: Find the frequency of String, I solved using Map (within in 2 minutes)
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Infineon Technologies

4.1
Jul 13, 2021

1- Round1: About Project and then cross question, was asked about Negative acknowledgment. 2- Round2: Technical Round: Take a dynamic array and get median of array, I don't know how he was saying take dynamic array....at the end he said dynamic array means user will give input at the start of program then you have to find, I was surprised. Firstly I solved using PriorityQueue, I thought I will get stream of data, as he said dynamic array and you will get data during as process Second Question: Find the frequency of String, I solved using Map (within in 2 minutes)

Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudera

4.1
May 21, 2026

Nothing complicated. Just questions about Spark and how it works internally. There was a question on how I choose between different approaches at work (tradeoffs, etc.). The "unexpected" coding session was more like a code review session in reality.

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