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Senior Backend Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

October 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Interview Process:

  • HR phone call
  • Engineer phone interview
  • Onsite with 5 people from different teams (including 1 Manager and 1 Director)

The process was quite quick.

I struggled with the Hiring Manager round, which focused on behavioral questions.

Questions

  1. Reverse each word in the sentence and return the sentence.

  2. Different ways of finding an element in an array.

  3. Balance parentheses.

  4. Quick sort algorithm.

  5. Can you use a class instance as a key in HashMap? Does it compile? Any disadvantages?

  6. Given an input which could be a data stream. You have matching data which you need to match with this input data stream and return the input from the data stream if there is a match. There are a few constraints within it.

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