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Questions about your experienced projects. Node.js and JavasScript related. Explain and Write pseudo code to read a file, save content into database and write the same content from the database to a file. longest common substring, two sum, Redux-Reducer, optimize Java code which needs to merge two tables ( which can use SQL replace)
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Senior/Principal Software Developer

Interviewed at PTC

4.1★
Nov 24, 2019

Questions about your experienced projects. Node.js and JavasScript related. Explain and Write pseudo code to read a file, save content into database and write the same content from the database to a file. longest common substring, two sum, Redux-Reducer, optimize Java code which needs to merge two tables ( which can use SQL replace)

The only nice product question asked was: If you were FT CEO how would you deal with the problem of newspapers becoming obsolete? Other questions were technical (engineering level technical) and it’s not even worth adding them here. If you are a true product leader and have a growth mindset, I’d recommend keeping distance from FT.
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Principal Product Manager

Interviewed at Financial Times

4★
Apr 2, 2024

The only nice product question asked was: If you were FT CEO how would you deal with the problem of newspapers becoming obsolete? Other questions were technical (engineering level technical) and it’s not even worth adding them here. If you are a true product leader and have a growth mindset, I’d recommend keeping distance from FT.

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