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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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The SQL questions were a fairly standard "design a table, give me the SQL queries to do X, Y, and Z". I made sure the table design was 3NF (although I'm not sure he caught that). Then he asked me to do a simple SELECT/JOIN query, and then another that was more complicated. The multithreading question was detailing a solution for "put" and "fetch" methods for a BlockingQueue. The methods had to maintain the order of the threads attempting the operations.
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Dec 19, 2014

The SQL questions were a fairly standard "design a table, give me the SQL queries to do X, Y, and Z". I made sure the table design was 3NF (although I'm not sure he caught that). Then he asked me to do a simple SELECT/JOIN query, and then another that was more complicated. The multithreading question was detailing a solution for "put" and "fetch" methods for a BlockingQueue. The methods had to maintain the order of the threads attempting the operations.

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