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Software Development Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 11, 2017

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First, a mathematic question, asking about a card game with how many possible way for the combination based on the rules it given. Second, let you to print out all the combination of 3 digit numbers with no duplicate, ex. 012, 013, ....123, 124, 125...
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Apr 15, 2015

First, a mathematic question, asking about a card game with how many possible way for the combination based on the rules it given. Second, let you to print out all the combination of 3 digit numbers with no duplicate, ex. 012, 013, ....123, 124, 125...

The initial question (writing a function to calculate a square root) ended up being the most difficult because it threw me off. I knew there was a good iterative method for doing so, but could not recall Newton's method in the moment, and I sadly let this nagging thought get in the way of my ability to work through the problem. My failure to perform well on that question set a negative tone for the rest of the interview, since each interviewer after the first can see notes from the previous interviewers.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Aug 13, 2012

The initial question (writing a function to calculate a square root) ended up being the most difficult because it threw me off. I knew there was a good iterative method for doing so, but could not recall Newton's method in the moment, and I sadly let this nagging thought get in the way of my ability to work through the problem. My failure to perform well on that question set a negative tone for the rest of the interview, since each interviewer after the first can see notes from the previous interviewers.

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