I was interviewed on campus at the University of Maryland, College Park. I received a call through the career fair. The first interview happened at the fair itself. I was asked simple mathematical and programming questions.

Then there were two back-to-back technical interviews. Some of the questions asked were:

• Given a list of exchange rates between several currencies, find out if it is possible to profit by moving through currencies, exchanging, and ending up at the same currency you started with.
• There was a question about implementing vectors from the STL.
• How to implement a queue using stacks.

The third interview was not really technical, although the interviewer asked me about Python and requested I write some basic code in Python.

The question about the inner workings of templates in C++, syntax, etc., was unexpected.

I had coded and prepared from a more algorithm and data structure point of view. I knew some of these C++ internals, but that was not the skill I was showcasing.

I have given other interviews, and such software companies rarely ask these language-specific questions.

As a result, whatever interviews I gave post this one, I claimed to know only C, lol.