Interview Questions I've been asked in interviews in the last five years
Amazon
1. Compute the max sum of a sequence in an integer array
2. Design a memory manager
3. Design a parking lot.
Alaska Airlines:
1. Describe the data structure for aircraft seating system.
2. Write a SQL query with a join and group by
3. What do you see as the challenge in working here ?
Avanade
1. What are the following C# keywords used for : static, protected internal, etc. ?
2. Write SQL queries for finding the customers who bought ten or more products ?
BankOfAmerica:
1. What architecture would you propose for the login functionality for our customers ?
BMC
1. Have you worked on the Remedy stack ?
2. Explain what kind of monitoring have you specified ?
3. How would you deploy on Linux based systems ?
4. How would your ideal deployment UI look like ?
Bocada:
1. Identify the sibling for a node in a Binary Tree.
2. Pick between Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search. Implement one. What data structure would you use ?
Expedia
1. Given a binary search tree, find a specified node ?
2. Write code for Breadth-First Search ?
4. How would you reverse the words in a string ?
3. If you are an engineer on call for production support of a technology you do not own, how would you handle incident reports ?
Facebook
1. Given a set of elements, print the power set which involves zero or more discrete combinations of its elements.
Clear.Com
How would you store and retrieve integers from a large file ?
ClearWire
F5
1. Explain the difference between TCP and UDP
2. Get the N'th last element from a singly linked list.
IBM ( Netezza )
1. Explain how query processing works in a DBMS ?
Honeywell
1. Is XML search case-sensitive ?
2. When would you use WCF ?
3. What's REST ?
4. What is dependency injection ?
Intel
Infosys
1. How would you improve the performance of web applications ?
2. With use of a single sign on software such as siteminder across various internal applications, a user session is lost between navigations. How do you diagnose and fix the problem ? This could be an issue with javascript, services, siteminder or network.
3. How do you prioritze, keep the team moving, meet the deadlines, and deliver with high quality
Intelius
1. Reverse the nodes of a linked list.
Micronet/ Kelly:
1. What are lambda operations ?
2. What's the difference between string and string builder ?
Microsoft Corporation
BING
1. Given a chess board, how would you find the smallest number of moves for a coin to reach a position on the board, if possible .
2. How would you schedule a task to start at time t ?
Azure
1. Get predecessor in a binary tree.
Exchange
Windows TCP/IP
1. Explain how would you search for patterns in a string ?
EMC
DataDomain,
1. Have you worked with Active Directory ?
2. What is CIFS ?
3. How do ACLs work ?
Isilon
Ontela
1. Given a square matrix of size N and entries 'X' or 'O', how can you tell if there's a line of 'X' and 'O's ?
2. How would you design a file system ? What are the layers and Interface ?
Banking software:
Write a method to shuffle the numbers in an array and write test cases for the same in pair programming.
RealNetworks
Write a function to search for string patterns.
Riversand
1. How would you swap two numbers without a temporary variable ?
2. Have you worked with MDM before ?
Salesforce
1. Write a program to compute the Inventory and prepare a report as shown with the given input.
Skype
1. Write a protocol handler that reverses the bytes
Starbucks
1. What are wrong with the following implementation of WCF code and config file ?
2. How do you wrap your MVC methods for error handling. Answer [HandleError] attribute ?
3. How do you define your serialization attributes. Why is order useful?
4. How do you use WCF with SOAP ? What additional items do you specify in the web.config ?
Teneros
1. Write code to demonstrate inheritance and access modifiers.
TCS
1. Which would you say is your strength ? Front-End, Back-End, Middle-Tier ?
2. Desribe the garbage collector in .Net. It's compact generational markdown compactor.
3. What is reflection ? How's it used ? Suggested answer : Reflection is a way to manipulate the types based on their metadata. Some uses of reflection are late binding, serialization , remoting, attributes etc.
4. What are some of the UI patterns for search functionality and the corresponding ORM queries?
T-Mobile
1. What's app data directory ? Why do you need it ?
2. Write code to search a number in a binary tree where the nodes are arbitrary ?
Zillow
1. How would you find out if a given number is prime ?
2. Write test cases for the same.
Amazon
1. Compute the max sum of a sequence in an integer array
2. Design a memory manager
3. Design a parking lot.
Alaska Airlines:
1. Describe the data structure for aircraft seating system.
2. Write a SQL query with a join and group by
3. What do you see as the challenge in working here ?
Avanade
1. What are the following C# keywords used for : static, protected internal, etc. ?
2. Write SQL queries for finding the customers who bought ten or more products ?
BankOfAmerica:
1. What architecture would you propose for the login functionality for our customers ?
BMC
1. Have you worked on the Remedy stack ?
2. Explain what kind of monitoring have you specified ?
3. How would you deploy on Linux based systems ?
4. How would your ideal deployment UI look like ?
Bocada:
1. Identify the sibling for a node in a Binary Tree.
2. Pick between Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search. Implement one. What data structure would you use ?
Expedia
1. Given a binary search tree, find a specified node ?
2. Write code for Breadth-First Search ?
4. How would you reverse the words in a string ?
3. If you are an engineer on call for production support of a technology you do not own, how would you handle incident reports ?
1. Given a set of elements, print the power set which involves zero or more discrete combinations of its elements.
Clear.Com
How would you store and retrieve integers from a large file ?
ClearWire
F5
1. Explain the difference between TCP and UDP
2. Get the N'th last element from a singly linked list.
IBM ( Netezza )
1. Explain how query processing works in a DBMS ?
Honeywell
1. Is XML search case-sensitive ?
2. When would you use WCF ?
3. What's REST ?
4. What is dependency injection ?
Intel
Infosys
1. How would you improve the performance of web applications ?
2. With use of a single sign on software such as siteminder across various internal applications, a user session is lost between navigations. How do you diagnose and fix the problem ? This could be an issue with javascript, services, siteminder or network.
3. How do you prioritze, keep the team moving, meet the deadlines, and deliver with high quality
Intelius
1. Reverse the nodes of a linked list.
Micronet/ Kelly:
1. What are lambda operations ?
2. What's the difference between string and string builder ?
Microsoft Corporation
BING
1. Given a chess board, how would you find the smallest number of moves for a coin to reach a position on the board, if possible .
2. How would you schedule a task to start at time t ?
Azure
1. Get predecessor in a binary tree.
Exchange
Windows TCP/IP
1. Explain how would you search for patterns in a string ?
EMC
DataDomain,
1. Have you worked with Active Directory ?
2. What is CIFS ?
3. How do ACLs work ?
Isilon
Ontela
1. Given a square matrix of size N and entries 'X' or 'O', how can you tell if there's a line of 'X' and 'O's ?
2. How would you design a file system ? What are the layers and Interface ?
Banking software:
Write a method to shuffle the numbers in an array and write test cases for the same in pair programming.
RealNetworks
Write a function to search for string patterns.
Riversand
1. How would you swap two numbers without a temporary variable ?
2. Have you worked with MDM before ?
Salesforce
1. Write a program to compute the Inventory and prepare a report as shown with the given input.
Skype
1. Write a protocol handler that reverses the bytes
Starbucks
1. What are wrong with the following implementation of WCF code and config file ?
2. How do you wrap your MVC methods for error handling. Answer [HandleError] attribute ?
3. How do you define your serialization attributes. Why is order useful?
4. How do you use WCF with SOAP ? What additional items do you specify in the web.config ?
Teneros
1. Write code to demonstrate inheritance and access modifiers.
TCS
1. Which would you say is your strength ? Front-End, Back-End, Middle-Tier ?
2. Desribe the garbage collector in .Net. It's compact generational markdown compactor.
3. What is reflection ? How's it used ? Suggested answer : Reflection is a way to manipulate the types based on their metadata. Some uses of reflection are late binding, serialization , remoting, attributes etc.
4. What are some of the UI patterns for search functionality and the corresponding ORM queries?
T-Mobile
1. What's app data directory ? Why do you need it ?
2. Write code to search a number in a binary tree where the nodes are arbitrary ?
Zillow
1. How would you find out if a given number is prime ?
2. Write test cases for the same.
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