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Easy for the first, and basic. System design questions, and basic java core questions. Concurrencies, HashMap, GC, Deadlock, List comparisons. LeetCode test is hard level on paper, Q3. Largest Rectangle in Histogram Solution: use stack to keep track of the index. Perhaps this should go first to screen?
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Senior Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at CMC Markets

2.7
Feb 11, 2026

Easy for the first, and basic. System design questions, and basic java core questions. Concurrencies, HashMap, GC, Deadlock, List comparisons. LeetCode test is hard level on paper, Q3. Largest Rectangle in Histogram Solution: use stack to keep track of the index. Perhaps this should go first to screen?

Q: what would you do if ... (situational questions) there is discrimination at work ? Q: Tellme about agile methologies you have used. Q: Experience in Pipelines? Deployments? Q: Experience in Unit testing ? Q: Tell me about confllicts on your team and how do you resolve them ? Technical Part (was fun): - Pair programming - build a web service in express/nodejs to calculate usage cost of a electricity system. - refactoring - create a node js module to encapsulate the solution.
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Lead Developer

Interviewed at Thoughtworks

4
Apr 7, 2022

Q: what would you do if ... (situational questions) there is discrimination at work ? Q: Tellme about agile methologies you have used. Q: Experience in Pipelines? Deployments? Q: Experience in Unit testing ? Q: Tell me about confllicts on your team and how do you resolve them ? Technical Part (was fun): - Pair programming - build a web service in express/nodejs to calculate usage cost of a electricity system. - refactoring - create a node js module to encapsulate the solution.

Solve a logic puzzle: There are five people: Ann, Bob, Charlie, Doug, and Edgar who are having a party. A set of facts about the people allow you to figure out the attributes of the individuals. The question is usually something silly like : which person at the pizza?
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Sep 23, 2017

Solve a logic puzzle: There are five people: Ann, Bob, Charlie, Doug, and Edgar who are having a party. A set of facts about the people allow you to figure out the attributes of the individuals. The question is usually something silly like : which person at the pizza?

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