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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

January 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online, and a recruiter reached out to me to set up a phone interview with the team manager. He asked some basic questions regarding the items on my resume. After that, I was set up for two onsite interviews.

First Day: Total of 5 rounds – 4 coding and one with the director. Each round was 45 minutes. Whiteboard coding on arrays, linked lists, and stacks.

Second Day: 5 rounds – 4 coding and one with the manager, each 45 minutes. Questions covered arrays, bit manipulation, OS, linked lists, stacks, and queues.

Questions

Find a number in a sorted rotated array.

Adding and deleting elements in a linked list.

Fibonacci series.

Implement stacks using queues.

Find the number of ones in a binary representation of a number.

Sort elements of a stack using two stacks.

Find factorial of a number using recursion.

Find the missing number in an array between 1 to n.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Dell Software Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Dell's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Santa Clara, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Dell's Software Engineer interview process in Santa Clara, California.

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