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Written was designing a system and coding some of the system internal modules. Once you qualify for the written, then interviews were mainly to gauge candidates grasp on C++ internals & usage, system designing and Interpersonal Skills. Some of the specific questions I remember given below: Smart Pointers Implementation with reference Count(basically internal implementation of all types of Smart Pointers:shared/weak/unique/auto etc... Static variables usage in Templates Thread Safe Design Patterns: Singleton/observer/MVC Data Structure Problems on Strings, Hash Maps and Trees Web Server designing and scaling Past Work-ex, problems faced and achievements STL and Boost Library containers, functional & algorithms usage and rational of usage while designing Design own vector class with custom Allocator Some unheard Puzzles: Mainly to understand the thought process rather than looking for definitive solutions Multi threading concepts and practical scenarios, a problem on the same on the lines of reader writer buffer management System Programming concepts and some system calls internals

Senior Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Vidder

4.5★
May 3, 2016

Written was designing a system and coding some of the system internal modules. Once you qualify for the written, then interviews were mainly to gauge candidates grasp on C++ internals & usage, system designing and Interpersonal Skills. Some of the specific questions I remember given below: Smart Pointers Implementation with reference Count(basically internal implementation of all types of Smart Pointers:shared/weak/unique/auto etc... Static variables usage in Templates Thread Safe Design Patterns: Singleton/observer/MVC Data Structure Problems on Strings, Hash Maps and Trees Web Server designing and scaling Past Work-ex, problems faced and achievements STL and Boost Library containers, functional & algorithms usage and rational of usage while designing Design own vector class with custom Allocator Some unheard Puzzles: Mainly to understand the thought process rather than looking for definitive solutions Multi threading concepts and practical scenarios, a problem on the same on the lines of reader writer buffer management System Programming concepts and some system calls internals

- tell me about yourself - quick sort - query to delete column in a table - implement tail command in C(or any lang) - how to sort 40 GB file if computer has 20 GB ram - implement queue using array - pthread , join thread, etc some more difficult pthread APIs - need for pointers,need for double pointers - message queues , rabbit mq
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Senior Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at ValueFirst Digital Media

3.8★
Mar 24, 2020

- tell me about yourself - quick sort - query to delete column in a table - implement tail command in C(or any lang) - how to sort 40 GB file if computer has 20 GB ram - implement queue using array - pthread , join thread, etc some more difficult pthread APIs - need for pointers,need for double pointers - message queues , rabbit mq

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