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Software Developer Interview Experience - New Zealand

February 27, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One in-person interview on campus, lasting an hour. Half algorithms, the other half previous experience, etc.

Then flew out to Singapore to interview with them!

Five hours of algorithms and data structures:

  • Find the median and mode of an array of numbers.
  • Implement the merge step from merge sort.

Things I should have gotten straight away, but didn't do too well on the day.

Questions

How to test a stapler? That was what tripped me up.

Maybe I should have thought about it like a software object with methods, such as load(StapleBlock[] staples), which need testing.

Instead, I thought of it as if I were a person wanting to buy a cheap stapler that would staple pages together properly.

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