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During the phone interview, the coding question was done on a google doc and asked: In Java, given a String of [a-z] characters, find and return the first character that appears only once. I implemented it using a counting array and in the end the manager asked if I could implement it in another way, which I mentioned I could do it using a HashMap.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Workday

3.5
Apr 6, 2016

During the phone interview, the coding question was done on a google doc and asked: In Java, given a String of [a-z] characters, find and return the first character that appears only once. I implemented it using a counting array and in the end the manager asked if I could implement it in another way, which I mentioned I could do it using a HashMap.

Probably the most difficult question they asked me was, he put a binary tree on the whiteboard and I had to write a function that would find if the tree was symmetrical or not. Anyone who's familiar with data structures and recursion should be fine with this, just don't freak out when they propose the question.
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Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Dec 15, 2011

Probably the most difficult question they asked me was, he put a binary tree on the whiteboard and I had to write a function that would find if the tree was symmetrical or not. Anyone who's familiar with data structures and recursion should be fine with this, just don't freak out when they propose the question.

round 1: Why coming to Berlin from India? Why Zalando? What do you know about Zalando? Salary expectations? Do you have any questions? round 2: Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between you and your colleague, how you resolved it. Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between two of your colleagues, they approached how you resolved it. How do you convince people to choose a technology? Tell me about about a situation when you went against odds / didn't listen to your manager. How you convince people to help you with technical issues. Tell me about about a situation which proves you are motivated to take up challenges and learn new technologies. How you choose a a particular technology/solution from among multiple technologies/solutions.
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Back End Developer (Java)

Interviewed at Zalando

3.6
Nov 22, 2015

round 1: Why coming to Berlin from India? Why Zalando? What do you know about Zalando? Salary expectations? Do you have any questions? round 2: Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between you and your colleague, how you resolved it. Tell me about about a situation when there has been a conflict between two of your colleagues, they approached how you resolved it. How do you convince people to choose a technology? Tell me about about a situation when you went against odds / didn't listen to your manager. How you convince people to help you with technical issues. Tell me about about a situation which proves you are motivated to take up challenges and learn new technologies. How you choose a a particular technology/solution from among multiple technologies/solutions.

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