SingleStore interview questions

They brought me to a terminal, and then asked me to look through a code base and make some changes. The catch was that the code was all C, and very poorly named. It was really tough to figure out what was going on. I guess one thing I should have done is asked more questions or opened up the files in a text editor it would save my search time. Dont focus on algs, and data structures it wont help you much. Best to understand C and system calls. I would also get really good at using advanced text edtior tools. They brought me to a terminal, and then asked me to look through a code base and make some changes. The catch was that the code was all C, and very poorly named. It was really tough to figure out what was going on. I guess one thing I should have done is asked more questions or opened up the files in a text editor it would save my search time. Don't focus on algs, and data structures it wont help you much. Best to understand C and system calls. I would also get really good at using advanced text editor tools.

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