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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2023
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through an employee referral. The process took one week.

The interview was on the BarRaiser platform, and it was for 60 minutes.

  • Introduction: 5 minutes.
  • Language & Framework: 10 minutes.
  • Backend Concept: 15 minutes.
  • Coding & Problem: 30 minutes.

Questions

The interviewer had six years of experience and was very good.

The questions asked were on JS, as I interviewed on Node.js.

Language and Framework:

  • All the concepts with the example
  • Closure
  • Var and let (difference)
  • Variable hoisting
  • Timer function (all functions name)
  • Immediately Invoked Function Expression
  • Token mechanism (JWT token)

Backend Concept:

  • ACID properties with example
  • HTTP status code like 401 is meant for what
  • Difference between Authentication and Authorization

Coding Question:

  • Variation of Overlapping Interval.
  • Given a few time slots like {{1012,1136}, {1137, 1417}, {1015,1020}} where 1012 means 10:12, find how many cars can be parked at the same time interval.
  • Input: arr = {{1012,1136}, {1137, 1417}, {1015,1020}}.
  • Output: 2.

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