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Junior Software Developer Interview Experience - Sweden

October 5, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. Applied online
  2. A call from HR to set up an interview
  3. First interview with a nice old guy (near 60 years old, I think). He asked some basic C/C++ questions (C - mostly memory management and pointer manipulation; C++ - difference between virtual and pure virtual methods, STL iterator types, operator overloading) and asked me to present some algorithms in pseudocode (can't remember exactly, but something like reversing a linked list and one sorting algorithm). A few days after the interview, I got an email. They said I did well and I should come to another interview.
  4. Interview with a developer. The first question he asked was to analyze some assembler code. After that (I didn't do very well with assembler), he asked if I knew something about differences in C structures' memory alignment with different compilers. He wasn't happy with my answer.

After that, he asked me some questions about my studies (I was a student back then), and the interview was over.

  1. After a few days, got an email - they thanked me for applying and didn't hire me, of course.

I felt like the guy from step 4 didn't know that I was applying for a junior C++ developer.

Questions

Differences in C structures: memory alignment and management with different compilers.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Nokia Junior Software Developer role in Sweden.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Nokia's interview process for their Junior Software Developer roles in Sweden is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Neutral100%
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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Nokia's Junior Software Developer interview process in Sweden.