The first interview is with HR to discuss job, salary, and benefit expectations. Following this, you will be met by the team leader or manager for the position to continue the process.

There are usually 3-4 technical interviews conducted by the manager, team lead, and future teammates. Typical interview questions relate to linked lists, arrays, binary search trees, and hash tables, often followed by coding or debugging of a mathematical problem.

1. Write a code on the whiteboard and ask you what this function is trying to achieve. In my case, it is a function to reverse an array.

2. Give you a printout of a source code segment and ask you to find the errors in the code, such as missing error handling, pointer issues, and memory leaks.