Questions on job interviews, concerning preparation for and attending job interviews, as well as designing job interviews for recruiting employees.
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C# Developer Interview in Quant Trading Firm [closed]
I have a senior developer interview coming up with a quantitative trading firm. It is a first interview after the pre-screening online test in C#.
Can someone guide as to what areas to prepare for?
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Do programmers (using an IDE) need to know namespaces? [duplicate]
I got into a discussion with a coworker over an interview question that was asked of a potential employee. "Name some namespaces/what do they do/what namespace is involved with x".
I'm of the opinion ...
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Simple Algorithmic Interview questions? [closed]
I will be taking some interviews for an intern position. And it will be a telephonic phone screen for around 45 minutes.
So I am looking for some simple algorithmic interview questions that I can ask ...
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Please tell me I'm not alone (can't program on paper) [duplicate]
So I went to a job interview today. Long story short, the interviewers were delighted with my knowledge and experience, they were practically showing me to my new desk. Needless to say, what delighted ...
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Coding “style” interview questions [closed]
I'm looking at coding interview questions and most of them are either algorithms or knowledge questions but sometimes I'm asked simple questions that don't involve a lot of thought just to see how I ...
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What to expect from a 'peer interview' for a new grad position? [duplicate]
I apologize if something like this has been asked, I did try to look for something similar.
I am graduating May 16th, and I applied for a position posted as '.NET Application Developer' requiring 1-2 ...
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General thought process for “How would you build this website/app” interview questions
I've collected a bunch of interview questions like "Describe how you would design a photo album application", "Describe how you would design this particular feature of this particular website" (e.g. ...
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Moving forward in the programming world
I have been placed in a recent position where my job title does not adequately represent what my current duties entail. I am worried that this classification will affect me later in my career as the ...
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What is a development stack?
I am just now in the process of looking for jobs as I am about to graduate from college. An interviewer asked me what my current 'development stack' is?
I know this is probably a really basic ...
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house?
In a recent interview I asked the interviewers "how do you go about evaluating new technologies and libraries (such as SignalR) and bringing them in to use?". They said they don't, that instead they ...
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“Your career path and promotions are up to you”? [closed]
I just interviewed for a large Silicon Valley company (you are probably using their products right now). One of the engineers told me that "Unlike IBM, where you follow a career path, here your career ...
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How do I evaluate programming interview preparation websites? [closed]
I ran across the CareerCup website which says they can help prepare you for programming interviews with various US based top tech companies. They don't "guarantee" anything, and the site appears to be ...
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Interview for UX/UI Javascript [closed]
I am interviewing for a job where the requirements are for...
UX practice with UI and Javascript expertise
I am expecting questions perhaps about MVC, maybe some specific frameworks, like backbone, ...
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Problems for Sample Code [closed]
I was recently asked to write some sample code that solves a difficult technical problem. I've been mulling over what kinds of problems might be good to solve in code to demonstrate my skills in such ...
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Began with iOS development, skipped CS, and getting hit hard at interviews? [duplicate]
I'll start with a brief background: my degree is in Recording Arts, so mainly audio engineering and stuff relating to the music industry, with some synthesis and stuff which was my link into coding ...
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Apply for a software job via WebService call [closed]
The idea would be to set up a simple webservice that a job applicant could call that would contain contact info, webpage link, etc. This would allow the company to screen potential employees that A) ...
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How to build Algorithm confidence and where to practice? [closed]
I have a pretty highly extensive background in development, I understand, can visualize and code from the top of my head any data structure. I understand running time complexity inside and out and can ...
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How do you find the first common element in two arrays
The way I did it was to loop through each at the same time and add the current value to a separate set for each of the lists. Also, check if the current element is already in the other list's set. I ...
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In an interview, is it better to code a brute-force solution to a tough question, or to spend the interview examining the question carefully?
Sometimes interview questions are hard, whether the interviewer intends them to be, or not. It can come down to a choice of whether to use the limited interview time to code up an ugly, inefficient, ...
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Program to verify all words in a crossword puzzle are valid
I have my own solution and wanted to check it against something online but couldn't find any examples. How would you solve this one. (I can post my code if necessary). I just want to see if someone ...
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What are some JavaScript selectors? [closed]
I was at an interview recently and although they knew that I was a beginner in javascript they asked me what selectors I used before? I didn't know what to say.
I came back home and searched for it ...
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Try to find a word in the dictionary that has most letters given
Given some random letters , For example "a,e,o,g,z,k,l,j,w,n" and a dictionary.Try to find a word in the dictionary that has most letters given
I was going through some old interview questions and ...
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Technical interview graphics-related concepts fundamentals [closed]
I'm having a technical interview with a graphics society in a few time and I'd like to expand my knowledge related to the following subjects:
TLB (translation lookaside buffers and their role)
low ...
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Engineering interview candidate refuses to use whiteboard
Today I experienced a first in a technical interview. The candidate refused to use the whiteboard to solve an algorithm question, as I requested. There was no sort of disability at play or anything ...
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What are some guidelines for submitting test cases with the code for an interview question? [closed]
I was interviewed by a big internet company. After describing the problem to solve, the interviewer requested that I also submit test cases with the code via email.
I'm not sure if I should reveal ...
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what to make of a Microsoft Most-Valued-Professional who believes that .NET types are either primitive or complex? [closed]
I thought that in .NET types are either value types or reference types. But this guy, when asked about .NET types, talked about "primitive types" and "complex types".
I understand that people ...
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What is meant by Distributed Systems Coding interview questions
I was told that I will be asked coding questions in my interview and that the context will be related to Distributed Systems (I took ONE Distributed Systems course and I don't even remember much from ...
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Interview - Create a portfolio to show my skills [closed]
I have around five years of experience in PHP development
and around one year of experience with ExpressionEngine.
I use PHP 5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies.
I decided to create ...
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Developed a web site - How to explain in an interview [closed]
I developed a e-commerce site for a major company. I did not create some kind of a document to show how the data flows between pages.
I used: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExpressionEngine, plugins ...
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Are there any tools for remote coding interview?
Firstly, I'm not exactly sure if this question is a better fit over here, or on workplace.SE. So forgive me if it is in the wrong place.
We are interviewing some candidates for a development ...
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Interview puzzle on traveling on a line segment
Here's an interesting question I came upon:
Let's just say on a number line of length M, where 0 < M <= 1,000,000,000, you given N (1 < N <= 100,000) integer pairs of points. In each ...
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When do you 'speak' C++ fluently? [closed]
I see that many companies require the same skill. This skill is often described as following:
"Applicants are required to speak C++ fluently."
I never really understand what fluent meant for ...
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Criticizing your former employer in an interview [closed]
I'm a very junior developer fresh out of college, and in my first programming job. I'm pretty unhappy with my current company-the software engineering standards here are pretty shoddy-the code base is ...
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What are some interview questions I can expect for a technical evaluation? [closed]
I am 20 years old and I've been doing some web development work for about 2 years or so. I have an interview for a Junior Web Developer position and the company knows that but I'll still be going ...
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How do you know how much money other programmers are earning? [closed]
A note before the actual question: I know this is similar to this question, but mine is kind of different, so it's not a duplicate.
We, as programmers, work for money. It's obvious: we want to pay ...
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What is a good web resource to practice and review data structures and other fundamentals that frequently are used in software engr interviews? [closed]
I have a few CS interviews coming up and looking for a good way to refresh on all the basic things. I'm about to graduate from college so I'm looking into new grad jobs.
Any good sites that you guys ...
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What's the point of those technique detailed interview question for Senior dev? [closed]
I've had an internal promotion interview for gain a higher level programmer title, something like Senior plus.
And I've been interviewed by around 7 people using different technology, and people ...
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Software Engineer in Test, Software Developer in Test, Software Development Engineer in Test [closed]
(Stackoverflow suggested that I move this question over here.)
Does anyone have a clear distinction between these titles? They seem to be near synonyms.
Personally I write and maintain code and ...
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More comfortable working on the backend, often referred for role on the front end
I have applied and have been approached for different roles in web development recently. The one thing that keeps coming up is that I am more suited to front end development than back end development. ...
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Programming interview question on Trees
I was asked this interview question at a top internet website company recently and I kinda was stumped by it.
Certain empty glasses of water are arranged in the following order
When you pour ...
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Using the STL to solve interview questions? [closed]
If I'm undergoing a technical interview that's based on my C++ skills, would most companies allow or expect me to use STL containers to solve problems?
I think it's clear that if a question is ...
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software design interview questions [closed]
I am preparing for an interview at google, and it will involve programming questions as well as design questions. I have done interviews with facebook and amazon, and I didn't do well in the design ...
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Job interview - questions that could help to detect bullsh*t from future employeer [closed]
Friend of a friend is looking for a new job. He finished IT university 2 years ago and started to work as a developer (C#/C++) in a small company but he wants to grow now and it is basically ...
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OO Design related questions in technical interviews
I've been attending quite a few interviews recently and have been asked by companies to answer "design a [insert model]" questions more than a few times.
Is this normal in the industry nowadays? ...
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Effectiveness of FizzBuzz and Beyond
As part of the interview process we initially ask the candidates to do 'FizzBuzz' nowadays the percentage of candidates that can correctly answer FizzBuzz has increased dramatically - this may be due ...
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Can I ask the job interviewer to show me their code before joining the company? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Asking for a code sample of the company at an interview
Last year I changed jobs twice.. In the interviews with the companies, everything was so ideal and perfect. ...
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Hash function classification interview question
In several places on the Internet there's the interview question
Classify the Hashing Functions based on the various methods by which the key value is found.
with answers like
Direct method
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Asking potential developers to draw UML diagrams during the interview
Our interview process currently consists of several coding questions, technical questions and experiences at their current and previous jobs. Coding questions are typically a single method that does ...
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Are these advanced/unfair interview questions regarding Java concurrency? [closed]
Here are some questions I've recently asked interviewees who say they know Java concurrency:
Explain the hazard of "memory visibility" - the way the JVM can reorder certain operations on variables ...
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How to evaluate code quality when you're not familiar with the language?
As a hypothetical, if I were to interview someone for a new PHP developer position when my experience is in .NET, how can I determine if the code sample they've provided me is efficient and of good ...
