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Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - Champaign, Illinois

July 1, 2019
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Process

Applied online.

Phone Interview.

Topics covered:

  • Reverse linked list
  • Fibonacci series
  • Linux command line arguments
  • Regex

Moved on to an onsite interview.

Onsite had 4 rounds:

  • OO Design round: Designed a Tic-Tac-Toe game.
  • Data Structure round: Covered 2-3 tree insertion and deletion.
  • 3rd round: Some regex. Was shown a 2-page Perl code for 5 minutes on a timer and asked to explain its functionality. More Linux commands were discussed.
  • 4th round: Behavioral and open-ended technical questions.

Learned from the hiring manager that I was rejected 7 days later.

Overall, it was a smooth process. Testing obscure data structures was not expected.

Questions

Design a database to store all data of a restaurant chain business.

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