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"Senior software engineers are the most experienced member of a software team and usually carry the most responsibility and authority of that team. Because of this, interviews will be designed to find candidates who have expert knowledge of the field and years of experience as a software engineer. Expect to be asked tough technical questions and to give examples of previous projects that you have worked on."

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Given an array of integers A[1...n], compute the array B[1...n] such that B[k] is the product of all the elements of A, except A[k]. Part ii) Try to do it without division (some mobile devices don't have division). Was asked to write code for part ii.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 29, 2011

Given an array of integers A[1...n], compute the array B[1...n] such that B[k] is the product of all the elements of A, except A[k]. Part ii) Try to do it without division (some mobile devices don't have division). Was asked to write code for part ii.

Given a 1TB file of serialized 4 byte integers, and 2GB of ram, sort the integers into a resulting 1TB file. My interviewer was very collaborative in entertaining various solution ideas until we came up with a combo that would work performantly and reduce the number of passes over the 1TB file and intermediate files.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Oct 14, 2010

Given a 1TB file of serialized 4 byte integers, and 2GB of ram, sort the integers into a resulting 1TB file. My interviewer was very collaborative in entertaining various solution ideas until we came up with a combo that would work performantly and reduce the number of passes over the 1TB file and intermediate files.

After Round 2 I Asked Interviewer How he would Solution for Above mentioned Q1 & Q2 questions of the Round 2 Technical Interview. Very Smartly Interviewer Did not take any effort to answer and also told me find it out by myself :)
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Intuit

4.2
Aug 10, 2013

After Round 2 I Asked Interviewer How he would Solution for Above mentioned Q1 & Q2 questions of the Round 2 Technical Interview. Very Smartly Interviewer Did not take any effort to answer and also told me find it out by myself :)

Considering a 2-dimension matrix that can only be traversed by 1 adjacent position at a time and never diagonally. Create an algorithm to traverse that matrix from its upper-left corner to its lower-right corner using the shorter possible path in the most efficient way.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Mar 19, 2009

Considering a 2-dimension matrix that can only be traversed by 1 adjacent position at a time and never diagonally. Create an algorithm to traverse that matrix from its upper-left corner to its lower-right corner using the shorter possible path in the most efficient way.

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