Questions on job interviews, concerning preparation for and attending job interviews, as well as designing job interviews for recruiting employees.
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Limited resource practice problems? [closed]
Background: I have applied to some large companies, and the areas I seem to be having problems with involve limited memory, disk-space, or throughput. These large companies process GBs of data every ...
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Books to nail a programming interview [closed]
Can anyone recommend any good books/reading for nailing a programming interview?
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Microsoft Interview Preparation [closed]
I have 8 years of java background.
Need help in identifying topics I need to prepare for Microsoft interview. I need to know how many rounds Microsoft will have and what all things these rounds ...
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Is it tacky to put *planned* course work on a resume when applying for an engineering internship? [migrated]
I have some very relevant coursework that I am scheduled to take over the course of this year, all of which would be completed before my hypothetical summer internship will start. Would it be unwise ...
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Hiring Developers - Any tips on being more efficient? [closed]
I represent a software company that is in process of building a large software development team. We are picky in who we hire and have really good retention rate (most of the devs have been here for an ...
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Multithreading synchronization interview question: Find n words given m threads
I came across this question:
You are given a paragraph , which contain n number of words, you are
given m threads. What you need to do is , each thread should print one
word and give the ...
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Preparing for an interview that requires writing code on the spot [closed]
I've got an interview coming up for a company that works in "big data". This company specializes in analyzing very large datasets. I will be required to write sample code during the interview. How ...
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Using “Google Guava” in coding interviews
I attended a in-person interview recently and performed well. But surprisingly I got rejected. When I asked the HR for reason, he contacted the technical interviewer and told me that I was ...
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what are some good interview questions for a position that consists of reviewing code for security vulnerabilities?
The position is an entry-level position that consists of reading C++ code and identifying lines of code that are vulnerable to buffer overflows, out-of-bounds reads, uncontrolled format strings, and a ...
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Best sources to find your go-to programmer [closed]
After exhausting many resources, time, interviews etc, I cannot seem to find the correct programming talent for our company. Any other resources you suggest besides Dice, Linkedin, Craigslist, ...
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What should my “large codebase sample” look like?
If an employer asks for a large code sample, one for an entire project, what characteristics should the project have to show architectural skills and the ability to manage a large codebase?
For ...
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Why would an employer ask for a 'long' code sample?
What would a large project that spanned multiple files and >1000 lines show to an employer that a few individual files and a couple hundred lines couldn't capture?
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Do other developers feel that as they get better, it becomes harder to get jobs? [closed]
When I was starting out, it seemed I had a much better time getting interviews and passing them. But now that I'm more experienced, I'm finding that its harder and harder to find a job. Do other ...
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Removing occurrences of characters in a string
I am reading this book, programming Interviews exposed by John Wiley and sons and in chapter 6 they are discussing removing all instances of characters in a src string using a removal string...
so ...
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What's a good, quick algorithms refresh? [closed]
I have programming interviews coming up in a couple weeks. I took an algorithms class a while ago but likely forgot some key concepts.
I'm looking for something like a very short book (< 100 ...
