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Since this was a testing interview and not full out development he had some testing terms I had never heard of these include: Equivalence Class Testing Pair Wise Combinatorial Testing Failure Mode Analysis the only one I heard of was: White Box vs Black Box testing The coding portion was not difficult the question was this Write a function that takes two lists of strings and return a list of Strings with all of the intersections of the strings ex: List1 = {"a","a","a", "b", "d"} List2 = {"a", "a", "c", "d"} expectedReturn={"a","a","d"} Also he asked what tests cases I would use to validate the function also he wanted to know the run time analysis of the function
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Software Development Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Dec 5, 2014

Since this was a testing interview and not full out development he had some testing terms I had never heard of these include: Equivalence Class Testing Pair Wise Combinatorial Testing Failure Mode Analysis the only one I heard of was: White Box vs Black Box testing The coding portion was not difficult the question was this Write a function that takes two lists of strings and return a list of Strings with all of the intersections of the strings ex: List1 = {"a","a","a", "b", "d"} List2 = {"a", "a", "c", "d"} expectedReturn={"a","a","d"} Also he asked what tests cases I would use to validate the function also he wanted to know the run time analysis of the function

* Merge two sorted linked list. The merged list should also be sorted. * Compact a string. i.e remove spaces * traverse a link list containing char* as data. test cases for the same. * reverse a string. test cases for the same. * remove all the given characters from a string.
Jun 22, 2015

* Merge two sorted linked list. The merged list should also be sorted. * Compact a string. i.e remove spaces * traverse a link list containing char* as data. test cases for the same. * reverse a string. test cases for the same. * remove all the given characters from a string.

Build a key-value data structure that allows the user to take a snapshot of the data. The user can read the key-value store from any snapshot. Structure has the normal key/value like methods plus something like snapshot = dataStructure.takeSnapshot() value = dataStructure.get(key, snapshot) void dataStructure.deleteSnapshot()
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Rubrik

3.4
May 10, 2017

Build a key-value data structure that allows the user to take a snapshot of the data. The user can read the key-value store from any snapshot. Structure has the normal key/value like methods plus something like snapshot = dataStructure.takeSnapshot() value = dataStructure.get(key, snapshot) void dataStructure.deleteSnapshot()

Soft Skill question: How did you manage to solve a specific problem in the past? With what means? Questions that you have to answer on e.g video format before the interview: 1) Why have you applied for this position? 2) What will you bring to this particular role? 3) What do you expect from this position? Then a set of technical questions sent to you by email (answer before the interview) 1.Explain when and why you would use multi-threading programming? 2. When you would use templates over inheritance? (C++) Please explain. 3. In your opinion What is the most important change in C++ in the last 10 years, explain why. 4. A process is having performance issues but you do not know where exactly the problem is. Which tools would you use to diagnose the problems and how? Please start with basic system tools expected on any system first and with the possibility to add more advanced tools second. 5. Give a code example of a ranged for statement in C++. 6. What is the difference between Abstract and Interface classes (C++)? 7. How you would implement the error handing for a function controlling a piece of hardware? You can write the pseudo code if needed. (C++) 8. What is difference between C++ shared_ptr and unique_ptr. When would you use each of them. 9. What is C++ uniform initialization, please give a couple of code examples. 10. What is a python decorator and when you would use it. 11. Explain what is a python lambda function and give a code example. 12. What would be your criteria to decide when to implement a tool in C++ or Python
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at European Southern Observatory

3.8
Mar 1, 2020

Soft Skill question: How did you manage to solve a specific problem in the past? With what means? Questions that you have to answer on e.g video format before the interview: 1) Why have you applied for this position? 2) What will you bring to this particular role? 3) What do you expect from this position? Then a set of technical questions sent to you by email (answer before the interview) 1.Explain when and why you would use multi-threading programming? 2. When you would use templates over inheritance? (C++) Please explain. 3. In your opinion What is the most important change in C++ in the last 10 years, explain why. 4. A process is having performance issues but you do not know where exactly the problem is. Which tools would you use to diagnose the problems and how? Please start with basic system tools expected on any system first and with the possibility to add more advanced tools second. 5. Give a code example of a ranged for statement in C++. 6. What is the difference between Abstract and Interface classes (C++)? 7. How you would implement the error handing for a function controlling a piece of hardware? You can write the pseudo code if needed. (C++) 8. What is difference between C++ shared_ptr and unique_ptr. When would you use each of them. 9. What is C++ uniform initialization, please give a couple of code examples. 10. What is a python decorator and when you would use it. 11. Explain what is a python lambda function and give a code example. 12. What would be your criteria to decide when to implement a tool in C++ or Python

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