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A lot of behavioral based questions, including "Tell me about the biggest mistake you've made professionally and what you learned from it," and "Tell me about a time you had to make a decision with incomplete data - what was your decision, and what would you do differently if you had to do it again?"
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 29, 2020

A lot of behavioral based questions, including "Tell me about the biggest mistake you've made professionally and what you learned from it," and "Tell me about a time you had to make a decision with incomplete data - what was your decision, and what would you do differently if you had to do it again?"

basically the test was a high school, entry level modest C set of 3-5 lines long questions, all in almost K&R meant to test if you knew that local variables are not initialized, to see if a for goes beyond nSize - 1, that being given a pointer you can access it using an array and other things of this sort. responses were automatically grilled (just like dmv office) and the so called "technical" recruiter was apparently computer illiterate
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Senior Software Engineer Architect

Interviewed at SpaceX

3.8
Jun 1, 2016

basically the test was a high school, entry level modest C set of 3-5 lines long questions, all in almost K&R meant to test if you knew that local variables are not initialized, to see if a for goes beyond nSize - 1, that being given a pointer you can access it using an array and other things of this sort. responses were automatically grilled (just like dmv office) and the so called "technical" recruiter was apparently computer illiterate

I was given a real-world situation that had arisen that morning in the interviewer's job regarding an under-performing member of the project-team employed by the customer that the customer had refused to remove from the roster - despite numerous interventions.
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Senior Implementation Architect

Interviewed at Guidewire

4.1
Sep 22, 2013

I was given a real-world situation that had arisen that morning in the interviewer's job regarding an under-performing member of the project-team employed by the customer that the customer had refused to remove from the roster - despite numerous interventions.

Much of the technical interview was whited board based, not so much problem solving or solving a specific problem, but based on technical acumen or chops. The interviewer kept bouncing around from one subject to another without any consistency. More of a pseudo skills review.
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Applied Computer Solutions

2.3
Aug 25, 2017

Much of the technical interview was whited board based, not so much problem solving or solving a specific problem, but based on technical acumen or chops. The interviewer kept bouncing around from one subject to another without any consistency. More of a pseudo skills review.

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