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1) I have class hierarchy and should create array of different instances of this hierarchy. They asked me to write a function which iterates this array and executes different methods according to the instance class. I suggested that downcasting is a bad idea and that it can violate Liskov substitution rule of the SOLID principles, and this problem should be solved using collections and generics, but they did not accept this answer 2) Create Queue N size using only N size array. 3) some Java concurrency related questions: synchronized volatile, atomic, etc....
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Taboola

4.2
Dec 6, 2015

1) I have class hierarchy and should create array of different instances of this hierarchy. They asked me to write a function which iterates this array and executes different methods according to the instance class. I suggested that downcasting is a bad idea and that it can violate Liskov substitution rule of the SOLID principles, and this problem should be solved using collections and generics, but they did not accept this answer 2) Create Queue N size using only N size array. 3) some Java concurrency related questions: synchronized volatile, atomic, etc....

Merge 2 sorted arrays A and B Result should end up in B, which has available space for all items Utilize the space in B, not using temporary arrays Result in sorted array in B A { 2, 5, 8, 12, 15} B { 3, 5, 7, 9, , , , , , }
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 7, 2016

Merge 2 sorted arrays A and B Result should end up in B, which has available space for all items Utilize the space in B, not using temporary arrays Result in sorted array in B A { 2, 5, 8, 12, 15} B { 3, 5, 7, 9, , , , , , }

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