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How should the engineering organization prioritize tech debt relative to building features?

Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Owner.com

4.6★

Oct 9, 2024

How should the engineering organization prioritize tech debt relative to building features?

Broad questions. Nothing technical. It was more on behavioral.

Principal Research Director - AI

Interviewed at Info-Tech Research Group

3.4★

Mar 1, 2024

Broad questions. Nothing technical. It was more on behavioral.

Standard issue behavioral questions to an almost scripted degree.

Principal/Senior Scientist

Interviewed at Adverum Biotechnologies

3.4★

Jan 18, 2022

Standard issue behavioral questions to an almost scripted degree.

Questions were fairly typical, and the team makes sure that you are comfortable with a quota-based commission structure in addition to your base salary.

Associate Principal

Interviewed at IPM.ai

3.8★

Nov 11, 2022

Questions were fairly typical, and the team makes sure that you are comfortable with a quota-based commission structure in addition to your base salary.

Walk me through your experience with mobile apps.

Principal UX Designer

Interviewed at Western Union

3.4★

Feb 28, 2024

Walk me through your experience with mobile apps.

Given a database of flights from source and destination, time taken and price. Source Destination Price Time Airlines Delhi Mumbai 5000 120 min Indigo Mumbai Chennai 3000 60 min Indigo Mumbai Blr 2500 60 min Vistara Delhi Blr 6000 160 min Vistara Blr Chennai 1500 45 min Vistara List all flights as per provided criteria, and the ability to sort by price and time. Eg. Delhi to Chennai can be 2 routes costing 8000 (180 min) and 7500 (205 min)

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Informatica

4★

Jul 11, 2024

Role play on specified topic

Associate Principal Scientist

Interviewed at Lonza

3.5★

Jun 23, 2019

Role play on specified topic

How would you justify in a QBR that the product teams are Delivery on schedule or behind schedule. What technique would you use.

Principal Program Manager

Interviewed at Qualtrics

3.6★

Aug 19, 2019

How would you justify in a QBR that the product teams are Delivery on schedule or behind schedule. What technique would you use.

2D array. You need to identify the amount of isolated clusters (islands) 1111 1100 0001 1111 ^ 2 clusters (islands) 11111 11000 00000 ^ 1 cluster (island)

Principal Front End Engineer

Interviewed at Audible

3.5★

Feb 15, 2020

2D array. You need to identify the amount of isolated clusters (islands) 1111 1100 0001 1111 ^ 2 clusters (islands) 11111 11000 00000 ^ 1 cluster (island)

Discuss the architecture design of your favorite past project that is either SOA or distributed. Discuss any software patterns that it uses.

Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at BAE Systems USA

3.7★

Nov 1, 2014

Discuss the architecture design of your favorite past project that is either SOA or distributed. Discuss any software patterns that it uses.

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