Process
Karat Virtual Onsite:
Flow:
- Self-intro (~1 min)
- Technical Q&A a. What is the difference between inheritance and composition? b. What is dependency injection? c. What is the difference between a thread and a process, and how do they communicate with each other? d. What is the difference between garbage collection and traditional memory collection? e. What applications do not work well with a garbage collector? f. How to write documentation for a company?
- Coding question
Questions
Flow:
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Self-introduction (~1 minute)
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Technical Q&A (Five topics: Production, OOD, Test, System Issue, Front-end Web). I chose these two topics: OOD and System Issue.
a. What is the difference between inheritance and composition? b. What is dependency injection? c. What is the difference between a thread and a process, and how do they communicate with each other? d. What is the difference between garbage collection and traditional memory collection? e. What applications do not work well with garbage collection? f. How to write documentation for a company?
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Coding - Wrap Line
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