Questions on job interviews, concerning preparation for and attending job interviews, as well as designing job interviews for recruiting employees.
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What is a development stack?
I am just now in the process of looking for jobs as I am about to graduate from college. An interviewer asked me what my current 'development stack' is?
I know this is probably a really basic ...
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How common is it for a team to write everything in-house?
In a recent interview I asked the interviewers "how do you go about evaluating new technologies and libraries (such as SignalR) and bringing them in to use?". They said they don't, that instead they ...
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“Your career path and promotions are up to you”? [closed]
I just interviewed for a large Silicon Valley company (you are probably using their products right now). One of the engineers told me that "Unlike IBM, where you follow a career path, here your career ...
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How do I evaluate programming interview preparation websites? [closed]
I ran across the CareerCup website which says they can help prepare you for programming interviews with various US based top tech companies. They don't "guarantee" anything, and the site appears to be ...
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Interview for UX/UI Javascript [closed]
I am interviewing for a job where the requirements are for...
UX practice with UI and Javascript expertise
I am expecting questions perhaps about MVC, maybe some specific frameworks, like backbone, ...
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Problems for Sample Code [closed]
I was recently asked to write some sample code that solves a difficult technical problem. I've been mulling over what kinds of problems might be good to solve in code to demonstrate my skills in such ...
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Good books for Google/Amazon Interview (onsite)? [closed]
While preparing for Google onsite interviews, I was advised as:
Apart from CLR and Skiena's algorithms book, the following books are focussed on real coding interviews questions which contains ...
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Should I include poker on my resume? [migrated]
In 2009 I graduated with a degree in compsci, 3.0 gpa from an average school. I worked for a few professors as a research assistant doing fairly simple programming in C/C++. After graduating I found a ...
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Began with iOS development, skipped CS, and getting hit hard at interviews? [duplicate]
I'll start with a brief background: my degree is in Recording Arts, so mainly audio engineering and stuff relating to the music industry, with some synthesis and stuff which was my link into coding ...
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good books for google interview questions [closed]
There is a great book :
"Top 10 coding interview problems asked in Google with solutions: Algorithmic Approach"
which claims to just focus on google questions, though it helped me greatly in Amazon ...
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Apply for a software job via WebService call [closed]
The idea would be to set up a simple webservice that a job applicant could call that would contain contact info, webpage link, etc. This would allow the company to screen potential employees that A) ...
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How to build Algorithm confidence and where to practice? [closed]
I have a pretty highly extensive background in development, I understand, can visualize and code from the top of my head any data structure. I understand running time complexity inside and out and can ...
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How do you find the first common element in two arrays
The way I did it was to loop through each at the same time and add the current value to a separate set for each of the lists. Also, check if the current element is already in the other list's set. I ...
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In an interview, is it better to code a brute-force solution to a tough question, or to spend the interview examining the question carefully?
Sometimes interview questions are hard, whether the interviewer intends them to be, or not. It can come down to a choice of whether to use the limited interview time to code up an ugly, inefficient, ...
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Program to verify all words in a crossword puzzle are valid
I have my own solution and wanted to check it against something online but couldn't find any examples. How would you solve this one. (I can post my code if necessary). I just want to see if someone ...
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What are some JavaScript selectors? [closed]
I was at an interview recently and although they knew that I was a beginner in javascript they asked me what selectors I used before? I didn't know what to say.
I came back home and searched for it ...
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Try to find a word in the dictionary that has most letters given
Given some random letters , For example "a,e,o,g,z,k,l,j,w,n" and a dictionary.Try to find a word in the dictionary that has most letters given
I was going through some old interview questions and ...
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Technical interview graphics-related concepts fundamentals [closed]
I'm having a technical interview with a graphics society in a few time and I'd like to expand my knowledge related to the following subjects:
TLB (translation lookaside buffers and their role)
low ...
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Engineering interview candidate refuses to use whiteboard
Today I experienced a first in a technical interview. The candidate refused to use the whiteboard to solve an algorithm question, as I requested. There was no sort of disability at play or anything ...
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What are some guidelines for submitting test cases with the code for an interview question? [closed]
I was interviewed by a big internet company. After describing the problem to solve, the interviewer requested that I also submit test cases with the code via email.
I'm not sure if I should reveal ...
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what to make of a Microsoft Most-Valued-Professional who believes that .NET types are either primitive or complex? [closed]
I thought that in .NET types are either value types or reference types. But this guy, when asked about .NET types, talked about "primitive types" and "complex types".
I understand that people ...
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What is meant by Distributed Systems Coding interview questions
I was told that I will be asked coding questions in my interview and that the context will be related to Distributed Systems (I took ONE Distributed Systems course and I don't even remember much from ...
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Interview - Create a portfolio to show my skills [closed]
I have around five years of experience in PHP development
and around one year of experience with ExpressionEngine.
I use PHP 5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies.
I decided to create ...
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Developed a web site - How to explain in an interview [closed]
I developed a e-commerce site for a major company. I did not create some kind of a document to show how the data flows between pages.
I used: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExpressionEngine, plugins ...
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Are there any tools for remote coding interview?
Firstly, I'm not exactly sure if this question is a better fit over here, or on workplace.SE. So forgive me if it is in the wrong place.
We are interviewing some candidates for a development ...
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Interview puzzle on traveling on a line segment
Here's an interesting question I came upon:
Let's just say on a number line of length M, where 0 < M <= 1,000,000,000, you given N (1 < N <= 100,000) integer pairs of points. In each ...
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When do you 'speak' C++ fluently? [closed]
I see that many companies require the same skill. This skill is often described as following:
"Applicants are required to speak C++ fluently."
I never really understand what fluent meant for ...
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Criticizing your former employer in an interview [closed]
I'm a very junior developer fresh out of college, and in my first programming job. I'm pretty unhappy with my current company-the software engineering standards here are pretty shoddy-the code base is ...
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What are some interview questions I can expect for a technical evaluation? [closed]
I am 20 years old and I've been doing some web development work for about 2 years or so. I have an interview for a Junior Web Developer position and the company knows that but I'll still be going ...
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How do you know how much money other programmers are earning? [closed]
A note before the actual question: I know this is similar to this question, but mine is kind of different, so it's not a duplicate.
We, as programmers, work for money. It's obvious: we want to pay ...
