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How would you handle local caching of a web application in case you want that web application to run without an internet connection on the client? (I respond.) Oh, that's a good idea. But wait, we mean just for Chrome? (I respond.) Oh, that would work, too, but we are looking for something specific. (I respond.) Oh, we'll just tell you. You could use Local DB storage using HTML 5. (I respond.) Oh, we know you don't have HTML 5 experience, but we decided to ask the question and waste your time, as well as ours, to try to get a very specific answer out of you, but without giving you a specific question! Isn't this fun?
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IT Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Archstone

3.6
Mar 19, 2013

How would you handle local caching of a web application in case you want that web application to run without an internet connection on the client? (I respond.) Oh, that's a good idea. But wait, we mean just for Chrome? (I respond.) Oh, that would work, too, but we are looking for something specific. (I respond.) Oh, we'll just tell you. You could use Local DB storage using HTML 5. (I respond.) Oh, we know you don't have HTML 5 experience, but we decided to ask the question and waste your time, as well as ours, to try to get a very specific answer out of you, but without giving you a specific question! Isn't this fun?

A burglar is attempting to maximize the amount taken from a set of houses on a street. However, the burglar cannot steal from consecutive houses. First, how would you maximize the amount taken from the houses if no values are known ahead of time? Second, if values are known ahead of time, how would you maximize?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Orbitz Worldwide

4.1
Jul 14, 2015

A burglar is attempting to maximize the amount taken from a set of houses on a street. However, the burglar cannot steal from consecutive houses. First, how would you maximize the amount taken from the houses if no values are known ahead of time? Second, if values are known ahead of time, how would you maximize?

Even though we don't know anything about MVC, we rewrote our main web application written in we forms to MVC. Except we couldn't figure out the model part and just used our Data Object Layer. If you want to use EF this isn't the job for you.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Main Street Checks

3.2
Aug 12, 2018

Even though we don't know anything about MVC, we rewrote our main web application written in we forms to MVC. Except we couldn't figure out the model part and just used our Data Object Layer. If you want to use EF this isn't the job for you.

We have a new president that wants to diversify the company, because people are not using checks as much because of e-checks, we are going into a new direction of printing billing statements, what do you think?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Main Street Checks

3.2
Aug 12, 2018

We have a new president that wants to diversify the company, because people are not using checks as much because of e-checks, we are going into a new direction of printing billing statements, what do you think?

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