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"Senior software engineers are the most experienced member of a software team and usually carry the most responsibility and authority of that team. Because of this, interviews will be designed to find candidates who have expert knowledge of the field and years of experience as a software engineer. Expect to be asked tough technical questions and to give examples of previous projects that you have worked on."

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Whiteboard coding exercise (trivia from the Jeopardy "Graph category"): - write code for a 3-letter "word ladder" to find the length of the shortest sequence to get from "hit" to "cog" (if there is a valid sequence) where only one letter in the word can be changed with each step through the words in the "set". start = "hit" end = "cog" set = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"] expected path: hit -> hot -> dot -> dog -> log -> cog
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Axon

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Feb 15, 2016

Whiteboard coding exercise (trivia from the Jeopardy "Graph category"): - write code for a 3-letter "word ladder" to find the length of the shortest sequence to get from "hit" to "cog" (if there is a valid sequence) where only one letter in the word can be changed with each step through the words in the "set". start = "hit" end = "cog" set = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"] expected path: hit -> hot -> dot -> dog -> log -> cog

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