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Why is the Single Responsibility Principle important? What is Inversion of Control? How does that relate to dependency injection? How does a 3 tier application differ from a 2 tier one? Show me a portfolio of all the applications you worked on, and tell me how you contributed to design them. What are some alternate ways to store data other than a relational database? Why would you do that, and what are the trade-offs?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Whole Foods Market

3.6
Nov 20, 2018

Why is the Single Responsibility Principle important? What is Inversion of Control? How does that relate to dependency injection? How does a 3 tier application differ from a 2 tier one? Show me a portfolio of all the applications you worked on, and tell me how you contributed to design them. What are some alternate ways to store data other than a relational database? Why would you do that, and what are the trade-offs?

General questions about C++, templates, some logic based riddles. i.e. Using just a single weight scale and having 9 marbles of equal mass apart from one, which is heavier, how many times do you need to use the weight scale to find the heavier marble?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

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Mar 21, 2016

General questions about C++, templates, some logic based riddles. i.e. Using just a single weight scale and having 9 marbles of equal mass apart from one, which is heavier, how many times do you need to use the weight scale to find the heavier marble?

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