This was for a new grad position in Austin, TX. I was contacted by a recruiter who set up a 45-minute phone interview with a director and a manager. The interview was a mix of technical and analytical questions.

If Mary is currently 50 years old and her mother is 76 years old, how many years back was her mother 3 times as old as Mary?

Differences between circular, singly, and doubly linked lists.

Differences between binary search and serial search, and how you would traverse through the list in each case.

CS fundamentals:

• Trees
• Data structures
• Hash tables
• Algorithms

If there is an important project set by upper management that is high priority, and another internal project with a sooner deadline within the team that is not really known to upper management, what would you work on first?