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Data Eng Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

May 1, 2017
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Standard interview process. Talked with six people, five hours total. Mostly typical Java questions. An average interview process.

No need for special preparation. All problems were of average level or below.

Questions

Order of printed messages:

class A { public A() { System.out.println("Start - A"); init(); }

void init() { System.out.println("Init - A"); }

}

class B extends A { private int count = 0;

public B() { System.out.println("Start - B"); init(); }

void init() { if (count == 0) { count = 1; System.out.println("Init - B"); } } }

The topics are the Fibonacci sequence, pros and cons, and performance improvement.

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