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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 main question is How much salary you want, Just to check their own salary. You can be only selected in this company if you are ready to work on lower salary. In Technical round, more concentration was on salary and the technical questions was just for time pass.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at JK Tech

4.4★
May 12, 2016

The main question is How much salary you want, Just to check their own salary. You can be only selected in this company if you are ready to work on lower salary. In Technical round, more concentration was on salary and the technical questions was just for time pass.

Write code to sum the values contained in two memory slots into a third memory slot, using only 3 instructions: zero <slot> increment <slot> jlt <slot1>,<slot2> <location>, where jlt=jump to <location> if <slot1>is less than <slot2>.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Walmart

3.4★
Nov 13, 2011

Write code to sum the values contained in two memory slots into a third memory slot, using only 3 instructions: zero <slot> increment <slot> jlt <slot1>,<slot2> <location>, where jlt=jump to <location> if <slot1>is less than <slot2>.

in first round - 1.design database table that can store comments like facebook. but there could be hierarchy of replies possible. design table to store them and query them in a way that each complete set of comments with their reply can be resulted. 2.Design ranking system, like in oyo room, there could be different ranking systems like user feedback and audit feedback etc. you should allow user to query all of them or few of them. the query should be generic enough. In second round- 1. calculate a to the power of n (interviewer was under impression that in order to do that u have to multiply a n times :D). optimize it to logn. 2. in an array every number present in pairs except one. find out one number which is not present in pair. (u can't sort or use extra space). (again this funny interviewer wanted to use bit-wise operator xOr to solve this which he was rigid. )
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at OYO

3.3★
Nov 1, 2015

in first round - 1.design database table that can store comments like facebook. but there could be hierarchy of replies possible. design table to store them and query them in a way that each complete set of comments with their reply can be resulted. 2.Design ranking system, like in oyo room, there could be different ranking systems like user feedback and audit feedback etc. you should allow user to query all of them or few of them. the query should be generic enough. In second round- 1. calculate a to the power of n (interviewer was under impression that in order to do that u have to multiply a n times :D). optimize it to logn. 2. in an array every number present in pairs except one. find out one number which is not present in pair. (u can't sort or use extra space). (again this funny interviewer wanted to use bit-wise operator xOr to solve this which he was rigid. )

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