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How to sort multiple arrays gigabytes in size How to organize an airport What is quicksort How to find the best score going through a mystery book where each page has a score and different options for the next page until the end
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 18, 2016

How to sort multiple arrays gigabytes in size How to organize an airport What is quicksort How to find the best score going through a mystery book where each page has a score and different options for the next page until the end

In the first round i am asked three questions 1. Eliminate the duplicate elements from a given linked list. 2. One question on Permutations and Combinations 3. Union find algorithm. In the second round Given a problem to design an algorithm for that. Some questions on OS(Memory Management, Scheduling) Some questions on C language
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4
Jan 22, 2016

In the first round i am asked three questions 1. Eliminate the duplicate elements from a given linked list. 2. One question on Permutations and Combinations 3. Union find algorithm. In the second round Given a problem to design an algorithm for that. Some questions on OS(Memory Management, Scheduling) Some questions on C language

The questions where very low level JAVA language questions. Questions like what is the Super class of all classes in JAVA. How does the class loader work. What are the different drivers in JDBC (he did want to know about JAVA JDBC Connectors so I do not know what he was referring to). The questions where mostly like this. Things that I never heard anyone else ask before on a JAVA interview.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Apr 4, 2014

The questions where very low level JAVA language questions. Questions like what is the Super class of all classes in JAVA. How does the class loader work. What are the different drivers in JDBC (he did want to know about JAVA JDBC Connectors so I do not know what he was referring to). The questions where mostly like this. Things that I never heard anyone else ask before on a JAVA interview.

There are ten buckets of lead weights, with nine of them having equal weights of 10 grams each, while one of them has weights of 11 grams each. You want to find out which bucket has weights of 11 grams each, by using a scale, but you can only turn on the scale once.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1
Sep 10, 2013

There are ten buckets of lead weights, with nine of them having equal weights of 10 grams each, while one of them has weights of 11 grams each. You want to find out which bucket has weights of 11 grams each, by using a scale, but you can only turn on the scale once.

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