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I was surprised when I was asked why the designer of Java did not include multiple inheritance (as in C++) in the design of the language. I had not worked in C++ for some years and drew a blank. The pre-screening interview was terminated at that point because someone more" theoretical" was desired.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Ticom Geomatics

3.6
Nov 7, 2012

I was surprised when I was asked why the designer of Java did not include multiple inheritance (as in C++) in the design of the language. I had not worked in C++ for some years and drew a blank. The pre-screening interview was terminated at that point because someone more" theoretical" was desired.

Leetcode Hard problems. Find the shortest to tallest then back to shortest height for a rollercoaster. So you have to print all ints in between rollercoaster points. Difficult problem but interesting. input: [1,4, 6, 6 , 5, 5, 2, 7] output: [1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, 6,6, 5, 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1 , 2, 3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,7, 6, 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1]
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Clean Power Research

4.7
Nov 15, 2018

Leetcode Hard problems. Find the shortest to tallest then back to shortest height for a rollercoaster. So you have to print all ints in between rollercoaster points. Difficult problem but interesting. input: [1,4, 6, 6 , 5, 5, 2, 7] output: [1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, 6,6, 5, 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1 , 2, 3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,7, 6, 5, 4, 3 ,2 ,1]

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