Senior Staff Engineer Interview Questions

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On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.
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Senior Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer

Interviewed at Arlo Technologies

4.4
Aug 16, 2018

On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.

Coding question: Given a list of products with prices, and a list of product sales (with possibly-incorrect prices), find the difference between total actual sales and the correct sale amount. Coding question: N athletes will compete in N events. Given data on how fast each athlete can complete each event, find the fastest time they can complete all events (each athlete takes 1 distinct event). System design question: Design and diagram an email campaign scheduling system, including template storage, user data, email scheduling, and email sending.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Iterable

3.9
Jul 8, 2023

Coding question: Given a list of products with prices, and a list of product sales (with possibly-incorrect prices), find the difference between total actual sales and the correct sale amount. Coding question: N athletes will compete in N events. Given data on how fast each athlete can complete each event, find the fastest time they can complete all events (each athlete takes 1 distinct event). System design question: Design and diagram an email campaign scheduling system, including template storage, user data, email scheduling, and email sending.

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