Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California
Process
3 interviews onsite.
1st interview: Logic thinking and programmatic skills.
2nd interview: Hardware/software integration. Discussion on previous projects.
3rd interview: Storage I/O in general. NVMe and storage stack in kernel.
Questions
Given a list of N servers and an array which tells how many requests each can handle.
Given a Target T requests, return a group of the minimum number of servers needed to satisfy the request.
The sum of requests of those servers should exactly match the Target.
If there are multiple such groups, return one such group.
E.g. Target = 8, Array = { 1, 9, 2, 3, 5, 6 }. Answer = {5, 3}. Can also be {2, 6}.
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