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They sent me a C++ code sample and asked me about memory layout design of classes. I was pretty confused because I didn't know any C++ and I didn't put either C++ or compiler design in my resume. All I could do during the phone interview was trying to apply my understanding of memory allocation in Java to the memory layout design for classes in C++.
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Software Engineer, New Grad

Interviewed at Everpure

3.5
Dec 5, 2014

They sent me a C++ code sample and asked me about memory layout design of classes. I was pretty confused because I didn't know any C++ and I didn't put either C++ or compiler design in my resume. All I could do during the phone interview was trying to apply my understanding of memory allocation in Java to the memory layout design for classes in C++.

I was asked about my Cv, I was asked about java oop questions and also the difficult one, i was about concurency in database and give examples of a uncoupled microservice. i said monolithic is coupled and microservice is uncoupled, but i was told it was wrong
May 24, 2025

I was asked about my Cv, I was asked about java oop questions and also the difficult one, i was about concurency in database and give examples of a uncoupled microservice. i said monolithic is coupled and microservice is uncoupled, but i was told it was wrong

Typical interview questions like tell me about yourself, and talked about one of my projects on my resume. This took roughly 10 minutes. The coding question was implementing a cache with a timestamp for the cache to delete itself.
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Apr 3, 2019

Typical interview questions like tell me about yourself, and talked about one of my projects on my resume. This took roughly 10 minutes. The coding question was implementing a cache with a timestamp for the cache to delete itself.

Coding challenge: 1) Given time in hh:mm format. Find the next higher time using the same digits. 2) Variation of K empty slots leetcode. (https://leetcode.com/problems/k-empty-slots/) Telephonic round: Given a list of integer numbers, a list of symbols [+,-,*,/] and a target number N, provide an expression which evaluates to N or return False if that is not possible.
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Dec 1, 2017

Coding challenge: 1) Given time in hh:mm format. Find the next higher time using the same digits. 2) Variation of K empty slots leetcode. (https://leetcode.com/problems/k-empty-slots/) Telephonic round: Given a list of integer numbers, a list of symbols [+,-,*,/] and a target number N, provide an expression which evaluates to N or return False if that is not possible.

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