Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Mateo, California
Process
Applied online.
Got a call for a phone screen after about a month. The phone screen consisted of questions on:
- Multi-threaded systems
- Deadlocks
- Live-locks
- Object-oriented programming (define polymorphism)
Got a call for an onsite a week later. The onsite consisted of four technical rounds, ranging from general coding, C++ programming (implement ++ operator for an integer array), and data structures (implement LRU cache), to general design.
Questions
Data structure for LRU cache
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