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1. What are the popular technical opinions you don’t agree with and why? 2. What is your approach to debugging?. Eg - The payment is being credited to the wrong merchant account. How do you debug this problem in production? 3. What is something that you didn’t agree with about the current company's recent technology decision? How did you handle it? 4. By showing a code example, they asked the following questions:- what does the function do?. Can it be implemented in a better way?. Where is the ideal place to add this function?. What can be more documented and how do you test this particular function. 5. How do you handle website slowness without rewriting in a different language or going for different architecture? 6. When do you do unit and end-to-end testing?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Lightspeed

3.5
Apr 29, 2022

1. What are the popular technical opinions you don’t agree with and why? 2. What is your approach to debugging?. Eg - The payment is being credited to the wrong merchant account. How do you debug this problem in production? 3. What is something that you didn’t agree with about the current company's recent technology decision? How did you handle it? 4. By showing a code example, they asked the following questions:- what does the function do?. Can it be implemented in a better way?. Where is the ideal place to add this function?. What can be more documented and how do you test this particular function. 5. How do you handle website slowness without rewriting in a different language or going for different architecture? 6. When do you do unit and end-to-end testing?

One question was about auto suggestions in a browser How threading works in different flavors of Unix C++ question There were more questions but I can't remember now but I will update this information in the future.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Jun 9, 2014

One question was about auto suggestions in a browser How threading works in different flavors of Unix C++ question There were more questions but I can't remember now but I will update this information in the future.

One question that really was odd was on writing a csv parser. I kept answering and he kept adding variables and I was doing pretty good. But at one point he asked what I could use to write a function to convert to any type the developer sent. I thought about it and could not come up with a good answer, so he said the hint was to use templates.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Feb 6, 2015

One question that really was odd was on writing a csv parser. I kept answering and he kept adding variables and I was doing pretty good. But at one point he asked what I could use to write a function to convert to any type the developer sent. I thought about it and could not come up with a good answer, so he said the hint was to use templates.

Technical was good. All four technical rounds were purely technical and multiple question BOMBS were drops on me, mostly around WCF, Web Services and C# basics. Gallup - Man! this is the worst thing that is gonna happen to you. If you be true and genuine there are 101% chances that you will fail. Prepare for psychometric tests online. Still there are 101% chances that you might fail. Either you have to genuinely be what they are looking for or you have to be a psychologist to manipulate the answers the way they want to listen. For example - Question 1) Are you a team player or an individual contributor? Say you answer : "Team Player" Now, After say 10 questions there would be another question to contradict the same team player question like - Question 11) Do you like to take advise or give advise ? - Now if you say take advise, you are gonna fail because a team player should always give advise. (Funny right ? ) LOL This Gallup round is not for people who are more human and less professional. You will most likely fail it without preparation.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Stryker

4
Sep 13, 2019

Technical was good. All four technical rounds were purely technical and multiple question BOMBS were drops on me, mostly around WCF, Web Services and C# basics. Gallup - Man! this is the worst thing that is gonna happen to you. If you be true and genuine there are 101% chances that you will fail. Prepare for psychometric tests online. Still there are 101% chances that you might fail. Either you have to genuinely be what they are looking for or you have to be a psychologist to manipulate the answers the way they want to listen. For example - Question 1) Are you a team player or an individual contributor? Say you answer : "Team Player" Now, After say 10 questions there would be another question to contradict the same team player question like - Question 11) Do you like to take advise or give advise ? - Now if you say take advise, you are gonna fail because a team player should always give advise. (Funny right ? ) LOL This Gallup round is not for people who are more human and less professional. You will most likely fail it without preparation.

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