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Software Engineer, Backend Interview Experience - India

June 1, 2017
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

1 coding round.

Telephonic interview questions:

  • Bitwise AND of 2 numbers.
  • Flip the ith bit (without using ~).
  • Check if balanced parentheses: ())() {[]}.
  • Regex for +6512345678 (i.e., +65 followed by 8 digits).
  • Stream of digits: How to print the average of the last n digits? How big can n be?
  • Debugger features? What is a stack frame?
  • How can you find an application running on a port?
  • You are writing code for a client which downloads files from a server. How do you restrict the file size (e.g., not allow download of more than 500KB)? (Hint: using HTTP)

Some questions were easy, some were quite confusing.

Questions

Bitwise AND of two numbers.

Flip the ith bit without using the bitwise NOT operator (~).

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Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

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Neutral20%
Negative60%

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