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PFE .NET Developer Interview Experience - Bogotá, Colombia

February 1, 2013

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They contacted me through LinkedIn. The first interview (online) included the following questions:

How do you debug an unexpected crash of a .Net application in production?
What is Intermediate Language an intermediary between?
What are generations? Please list and describe them.
Give 3 conditions for a .Net Garbage Collection.
What is ngen?
What are some of the thread locking constructs in .NET?

I'm still waiting for the second and third interviews.

Questions

What is ngen?

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