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Applications Support Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts

April 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Good experience!!! Lot to learn, but not hard. Concentrate on Maths, Data Structures, OOD, Programming Concepts (any two of Java, JavaScript, Matlab, C++, C), and OS. Totally 6 rounds, but I was rejected in the third round. The interview was scheduled conveniently.

Questions

Round 1: Video Interview

Most of the questions are available in Glassdoor.

Round 2: Online Coding Challenge

Choose any two of the mentioned programming languages: Java, C++, C, Matlab, JavaScript. I chose Java and C++.

Questions covered: String reversing, Printing the largest value from a HashMap, and OOPs concepts.

Round 3: Technical Phone Interview - 45-50 Minutes

Java: Prepare for 'what and why' type questions.

  • Why Java Generics?
  • Code Snippet: Polymorphism
  • Code Snippet: Typecasting
  • Code Snippet: Inheritance
  • Multithreading
  • Questions from the online coding challenge regarding how to improve given solutions.
  • Predict the output of code snippets.

JavaScript: Prepare for 'what and why' type questions.

  • Predict the output of code snippets.
  • Undefined value
  • Difference between null and null?
  • Questions on console.log();

Object-Oriented Design (OOD):

  • Explain MVC? Explain with an example.
  • How would you draw a class diagram for a scenario? (This question differs for every candidate, so prepare accordingly.)

Operating Systems (OS):

  • Semaphore vs. Mutex
  • Deadlock
  • Process

Mathematics (Math):

  • Matrix multiplication
  • Inverse
  • Eigenvalue & Eigenvector
  • Derive a differential equation
  • First-order and second-order differential equations.

All the best.

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Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

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Negative11%

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