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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 (more trivia from the Jeopardy "Graphics processing category"): - write code for a function to copy a rectangle in an image from one location to another - this is like moving a window in a window manager, but the original window image can be left there - inputs: char [][] image, Rectangle (x,y,width, height) toCopy, Point (x,y) destination - image character array is ok for illustration purposes - 0,0 in top, left - do basic copy process - what happens when the destination is inside the rectangle to copy? - when does the original data get damaged? - add logic to copy the rectangle properly (prevent damage to the image data) - how to erase the original rectangle from the image - this was referred to as the "bit blit" algo - but am not finding a decent example of code for this on the web at first glance Whiteboard coding exercise (even more irrelevant trivia): - write code to solve 9x9 Sudoku (brute force frowned on)
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Axon

3.6★
Feb 15, 2016

Whiteboard coding exercise (more trivia from the Jeopardy "Graphics processing category"): - write code for a function to copy a rectangle in an image from one location to another - this is like moving a window in a window manager, but the original window image can be left there - inputs: char [][] image, Rectangle (x,y,width, height) toCopy, Point (x,y) destination - image character array is ok for illustration purposes - 0,0 in top, left - do basic copy process - what happens when the destination is inside the rectangle to copy? - when does the original data get damaged? - add logic to copy the rectangle properly (prevent damage to the image data) - how to erase the original rectangle from the image - this was referred to as the "bit blit" algo - but am not finding a decent example of code for this on the web at first glance Whiteboard coding exercise (even more irrelevant trivia): - write code to solve 9x9 Sudoku (brute force frowned on)

Programming language questions are always the toughest to me as not only languages are evaluated (easy) but now frameworks are also deeply evaluated (tougher for me). That being said, I think the right lighter weight was assigned to these knowing that one can catch-up if the language basis is strong. I was also asked to produce a PowerPoint to present and gave it 2-3 days to prepare it and feel good about the quality of what I have produced. The hiring manager was presented the PowerPoint and we interacted on that basis during a complete hour.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Yellow Pages

3.3★
Mar 8, 2014

Programming language questions are always the toughest to me as not only languages are evaluated (easy) but now frameworks are also deeply evaluated (tougher for me). That being said, I think the right lighter weight was assigned to these knowing that one can catch-up if the language basis is strong. I was also asked to produce a PowerPoint to present and gave it 2-3 days to prepare it and feel good about the quality of what I have produced. The hiring manager was presented the PowerPoint and we interacted on that basis during a complete hour.

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