Explain about a difficult project you handled in previous job
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Same old bunch of questions evaluating competitive programming skills instead of evaluating work experience. That's why they are lagging behind the market compared to other fortune 50 companies and basically have no innovation.
What is the ideal way in which you would work?
It was so long ago I can not remember, however they were more situational based.
Writing and communication skills were evaluated and I was asked how will I prioritize my tasks.
describe your previous role
Describe how you would solve certain internal challenges where different scenarios were presented. How would you handle internal disruptions to internal processes
The Technical Interview consisted of a coding problem for an LRU Cache. For the big session there were two coding problems reversing a singly linked list and a problem showing a list of messages based on a specific timeframe. One hour session was focused on Architecture, high level design, how is composed the architecture of the projects where I have participated. Other questions were examples of challenging projects, how to solve human conflicts in a working environment. The remaining two questions were based on how to manage a project (estimating, planning, coordinating, delivering, and maintaining), and about the phases of the software life cycle (requirements determination, analysis, design, coding, QA, implementation, and support.
I ASKED THEM an unexpected question: I asked what their employee churn rate was, they didn't know. I asked what their annual revenue was, they didn't know. These were high level execs I asked.
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