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Software Engineer Entry Level Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

April 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview: Asked easy questions. Most are on Glassdoor.

On-site Interview: Very nice arrangements for travel and hotel. The interview process was very good. Interviewers were kind and relaxed. They asked everything about operating systems, from hardware to software. Study Operating Systems from "Modern Operating Systems" by Tenenbaum.

Topics covered:

  • Computer System Architecture
  • Virtual Memory and Addressing

Questions:

  1. Implement functions (in C) for insertion and removal of nodes from a circular queue using arrays.
  2. Implement array reversal without iteration.
  3. Remove any node from a Linked List. Specifically, remove the node that is easiest to remove. Write the code in C.
  4. What is the address in C code when we write &a, where a is a variable? Is it a virtual or physical address?
  5. Questions on projects listed on the resume.

Great interviewers. Remain calm.

Questions

Array reverse without using iteration.

Code in C.

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