Questions tagged [interview]
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
I recently finished an interview with a company as a web developer. I'm the first and only developer that is about to be hired in this company.
They have a web application that was created by a ...
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Will conversion of a string to a list, and vice versa count in time complexity?
Assume that there is a question where a string needs to be passed. Some modification needs to be done on the string and then returned back.
For the programming languages like C where a string is a ...
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How do you make sure your logs are sufficient? [closed]
I was in a job interview with a vp r&d today.
One of his questions went something like:
"How do you make sure your code works?"
This question struck me as a bit strange, so I explained ...
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Find two horizontal lines to minimize distance to scattered points
I am having trouble with a coding question that I found practicing for a interview:
A scatter graph of points on a page, draw two horizontal lines (these lines are parallel) across the page such that ...
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Strange interview question or deceptively simple? [closed]
Hi all: I've gotten this question like four times interviewing in silicon valley. What is the correct solution?
Shuffling a deck of cards. The problem description is as follows:
You are given a ...
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Does the workload problem belong to a class of computer science problem?
I went for an interview, and got a workload problem:
Problem: write a function to tell whether a series of workloads will exceed
the maximum workload or not
Input: MaxWorkLoad: example 10
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Should I show my commit history on an Interview Question? [closed]
I recently did a phone interview with a company. The interviewer told me that he didn't like like to get people to write code on the spot without access to stack overflow or documentation because that'...
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Test Cases in an Interview Setting
In the first cracking the coding interview video Ms. McDowell talks about candidates that begin by writing test cases in whiteboard interviews. How would one go about this?
For example, the ...
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Should Someone without Programming Knowledge Phone Screen? [closed]
I've been given most of the hiring responsibilities and will be conducting the in-person interviews. I'm also going through the resumes for worthy candidates. The plan is to have the HR department do ...
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How to prepare for INTERVIEW with PAIR PROGRAMMING (C#) [closed]
I have a stage in an interview process where I am supposed to do pair programming, or at least they want to see me working in Visual Studio with an experienced developer. This is a company promoting ...
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Does the phrase "range for R1-1 through R10H" actually have an agreed-upon meaning? [closed]
I was recently sent a code test by a potential employer to complete on my own time. The first question has to do with identifying whether a given zoning code falls within a range of codes. I'm not ...
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Licensing code submitted after job interview [duplicate]
I applied for a job in a small company (~25 employees) on December and after a month the CEO of the company wrote to me that he is interested to interview me. During the interview I got a bad ...
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Storing 5000 elements on client side in a web application [closed]
I just had a phone interview for ASP.Net developer, after initial introductory stuff the interviewer ask me first technical question:
"How would you store 5000 elements on client side for each user ...
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Should I avoid using 'break' during a coding interview? [duplicate]
I have an upcoming internship interview with Microsoft and, although I rarely use break in my own code, it does simplify things a lot of times and bring me to a solution faster when coding on the ...
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Should simple tasks be divided into separate functions? [duplicate]
If I have to write a simple program (25-35 lines), should I divide it even further, in functions which have a few lines and get executed max. 2 times, or to put it all im one?
e.g. if I need to add ...
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