Coding interview
- Part 1 (theory and practice, general chat)
- All questions were very open-ended.
- Difference between [two of your languages of choice].
- Practical implications of the differences?
- When you use variables in C++ vs Python, what are the types? (Hinted at python variables not having a fixed type.)
- Memory leaks, memory management. Python vs C++.
- Private variables in C++ and Python. So does this mean that you can't use Python to write secure software?
- Object oriented programming. What are the advantages? When can it be good?
- How would you implement Python dictionary if Python interpreter didn't exist?
- Explained implementation using hash table.
- Q: Another way of implementing it?
- All complexity results from the start of the century hold. But some things have changed in our software and hardware. How does it affect things?

- Part 2:
- Showed me a google slides presentation describing a geometric algorithm for calculating the value of pi.
- Task: implement it (took longer in the first part, so only had 15 minutes).
- (Roughly: Approximate arc by piecewise-linear function, calculate length of a segment, multiply by number of segments.)
- At the end, asked which extra steps would I do if this was to be usable by other people.

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Coding interview
- Part 1 (theory and practice, general chat)
    - All questions were very open-ended.
    - Difference between [two of your languages of choice]. 
    - Practical implications of the differences?
    - When you use variables in C++ vs Python, what are the types? (Hinted at python variables not having a fixed type.)
    - Memory leaks, memory management. Python vs C++.
    - Private variables in C++ and Python. So does this mean that you can't use Python to write secure software?
    - Object oriented programming. What are the advantages? When can it be good?
    - How would you implement Python dictionary if Python interpreter didn't exist?
        - Explained implementation using hash table.
        - Q: Another way of implementing it?
    - All complexity results from the start of the century hold. But some things have changed in our software and hardware. How does it affect things?

- Part 2:
    - Showed me a google slides presentation describing a geometric algorithm for calculating the value of pi.
- Task: implement it (took longer in the first part, so only had 15 minutes).
- (Roughly: Approximate arc by piecewise-linear function, calculate length of a segment, multiply by number of segments.)
    - At the end, asked which extra steps would I do if this was to be usable by other people.

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