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- give a mathematical formula for a 4 post tower of Hanoi puzzle - code a cache (I did LRU, and then different types of cache management) - data structure for a rabbits family tree and a function to see if two rabbits share a common ancestor - code a 2D (string) grid path thru #'s and .'s to code a "reach the end" method - discuss web services
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Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Interviewed at VMware

4.4
Feb 5, 2021

- give a mathematical formula for a 4 post tower of Hanoi puzzle - code a cache (I did LRU, and then different types of cache management) - data structure for a rabbits family tree and a function to see if two rabbits share a common ancestor - code a 2D (string) grid path thru #'s and .'s to code a "reach the end" method - discuss web services

General questions related to operating systems,programming,design etc. Face to face will be like picnic. People will come to take interview unprepared and throw abrupt questions. Questions will not be tough though but repeated questions and you will 'understand' that interviewer is not prepared for the interview
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Senior Member of Technical Staff

Interviewed at VMware

4.4
Aug 24, 2015

General questions related to operating systems,programming,design etc. Face to face will be like picnic. People will come to take interview unprepared and throw abrupt questions. Questions will not be tough though but repeated questions and you will 'understand' that interviewer is not prepared for the interview

Technical details from resume A Scheduling problem using binary search Write code for First Fit and Best fit memory allocation algorithms Python equivalent for malloc and calloc Remove a node from linked list (given node itself) Difference between merge sort and quick sort Which sorting algorithm will you use if you have a definite space of memory which is less than twice the size of given array (quick sort as it's in place) Backend concepts Design principles Programming paradigms All answers required time and space complexity optimization
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Member of Technical Staff

Interviewed at VMware

4.4
Sep 14, 2018

Technical details from resume A Scheduling problem using binary search Write code for First Fit and Best fit memory allocation algorithms Python equivalent for malloc and calloc Remove a node from linked list (given node itself) Difference between merge sort and quick sort Which sorting algorithm will you use if you have a definite space of memory which is less than twice the size of given array (quick sort as it's in place) Backend concepts Design principles Programming paradigms All answers required time and space complexity optimization

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