Thoughtworks Developer interview questions

29-sep-2014 It was an awesome experience. I had gone through nearly 8 rounds 1.short code round (20-30 mins) a.accept a week day like wednesday and a number like 2 then display sum as friday and subtraction as monday b. display all odd numbers whose sum of digits is 7 2.logical round(1.15mins) it is all about flow chart which u can get in net first two problems may change 3.pair programming round(1.30 mins) a thoughtworker will be guiding u on the problem problem statement down vote favorite An airlines company has several planes of the same type.Each plane has a seating capacity of 24 X 3 rows and 8 seats in each row split has shown. 1 [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] 2 [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] 3 [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] If 4 people book-allocate 4 seats in middle row.Else 2 on the right and 2 on the left. if 3 people book- id middle section is empty,allocate there continuously.Else go to next row middle section. if 2 people book-allocate the edge seats. if 1 person has booked -then allocate whatever free seat available. eg- input 4 output-1c 1d 1e 1f input-3 output- 2c 2d 2e input-2 output-1a 1b 4.technical 1(1hr) which is your favourite subject and practical questions on it,real world implementation, how u could map ur knowledge to application level.no definitions only class diagram ,piece of code what is dangling pointer ? what is inheritance?implementation... polymorphism ,function overloading,operator overloading data abstraction,data hiding how c++ different from c when u save ur program how it stores to memry ..context switching pointer to pointer etc friend function few dbms queries on join operation aggregation ,count 5.technical2(1.30mins) most difficult round 4 subjects which u like other than c,c++ java i said os dbms networks ada what is semaphores mutex process scheduling paging page faults deadlocks 4 conditions how to resolve program to swap the words in string eg hai hello cool o/p cool hello hai i used src and destn strings and did it later he askd me to do without using one more menory space only within src string if u have x1 y1 ,x2 y2, x3 y3 numbers eg x values 1 5 7 y values 2 3 0 get minimal sum of xy ie 7*0+5*2+1*3=13 when type some website how it is treated by browser to go to server class diagram for banking system for some statement osi layers queries in dbms normalization 1NF 2NF so on about project websites u daily visit they opened dat particular site and asked few questions on it and few mor questions 6.leadership round(30 mins) tell me about yourself family why thoughtworks if ur manager is not training u properly wt wld u do what is the suggestion fr rejected candidates fav actor how many elements in periodic table wt is cosec2theta abt hobbies tell me a short poem nw which u had written 7.values round(45mins) how ur life values matches to company values discussion abt society ur opinion hw do u care fr society ur contribution 8.aptitude(12mins) 50questions increaing order of difficulty i solved 25 try as much as u can sugesstions:dont panic be confident abt ur answers technical rounds wil b bit difficult they try to pressurize u bt handle the situations well all d best