Engineers are responsible for designing and building products. In an interview context, expect to be quizzed on your technical skills, and also evaluated for your ability to work as a part of a team to get things built. The specific questions you are asked will depend on what type of engineering position you are looking for such as a specific engineering discipline like software engineer, electrical engineer, or mechanical engineer.
Basic SQL questions. Describe a join to a non-technical person. How do you handle a query that does not perform quickly? They want to know that you can use 'explain plans', which I currently do not use (I'm still entry level). Select all customers who purchased at least two items on two separate days. Given a table with a combination of flight paths, how would you identify unique flights if you don't care which city is the destination or arrival location.
Design data-structures, dynamic programming questions
Write a function in any language that will print "AN" if a number is divisible by 8, "ANIM" if divisible by 16 and "ANIMAL" if divisible by 32.
Logic question - You are alone on an island with these items; cigarette lighter, cell phone, 2 fuse ropes Known: - each rope is consumed by fire in 60 seconds - you can't assume constant burn rate for any portion of rope, only total time - you can't cut ropes Problem: How to measure 45 seconds
The accent of the interviewer was very hard to understand. Given an array with N - 2 elements (two missing) from 1 to N, find the two missing elements in linear time and constant memory usage.
Merge Linked list
Given an input vector X, first determine the sum of 2^(of each element), then give the shortest vector Y's length which elements' sum equals the input vector. Require some binary-related logic.
Write a function Brackets(int n) that prints all combinations of well-formed brackets. For Brackets(3) the output would be ((())) (()()) (())() ()(()) ()()()
Write a function to get maximum consecutive sum of integers from an array.
You are given an n by n array filled with '0's, and you have to set randomly X number of '1's in that array. Looping and generating x random number doesn't work as you might get the same random number (especially as X gets closer to n*n, collisions will become more likely in which case you'll loop for a very long time before filling all the '1's). All positions must have the same probability to get selected, and the array might be huge.
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