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The interview questions themselves were rather odd. One was "what are the different scopes in Spring". Testing my ability to spout little-known facts isn't helpful to the process. A much better question would have been "what is Spring and why is it useful?" A solid engineer would be able to answer the second question, while anyone that can answer the first is simply good at memorizing things. There were more unhelpful questions like: "is Java pass-by-reference or pass-by-value"? "what's the difference between String and StringBuilder"? These are easy, but give very little insight into whether I'm a good engineer, which *should* be the goal of the interview.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Glassdoor

3.8★
Dec 19, 2014

The interview questions themselves were rather odd. One was "what are the different scopes in Spring". Testing my ability to spout little-known facts isn't helpful to the process. A much better question would have been "what is Spring and why is it useful?" A solid engineer would be able to answer the second question, while anyone that can answer the first is simply good at memorizing things. There were more unhelpful questions like: "is Java pass-by-reference or pass-by-value"? "what's the difference between String and StringBuilder"? These are easy, but give very little insight into whether I'm a good engineer, which *should* be the goal of the interview.

print the middle of linked list struct Node { int data; struct Node* next; }; /* Function to get the middle of the linked list*/ void printMiddle(struct Node *head) { struct Node *slow_ptr = head; struct Node *fast_ptr = head; if (head!=NULL) { while (fast_ptr != NULL && fast_ptr->next != NULL) { fast_ptr = fast_ptr->next->next; slow_ptr = slow_ptr->next; } printf("The middle element is [%d]\n\n", slow_ptr->data); }
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1★
Mar 4, 2019

print the middle of linked list struct Node { int data; struct Node* next; }; /* Function to get the middle of the linked list*/ void printMiddle(struct Node *head) { struct Node *slow_ptr = head; struct Node *fast_ptr = head; if (head!=NULL) { while (fast_ptr != NULL && fast_ptr->next != NULL) { fast_ptr = fast_ptr->next->next; slow_ptr = slow_ptr->next; } printf("The middle element is [%d]\n\n", slow_ptr->data); }

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