Software Engineer Internship Interview Questions

Software Engineer New Graduate

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Aug 15, 2012

What is the output? int n = 1; puts(((char*)&n)[0]==1?"Y":"N");

Web Developer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Aug 17, 2012

1) Given a string of parantheses, check if the string is valid. ex: [[]] is valid, ][][ is not valid. How would you solve if the parantheses could be of different types like {,[,(

Software Engineer

Interviewed at PayPal

3.6★

Dec 19, 2011

CODING (weight: 50%) The string "PAYPAL IS HIRING" is written in a zigzag pattern on a given number of rows like this: (you may want to display this pattern in a fixed font for better legibility) P A H N A P L S I I G Y I R And then read line by line: PAHNAPLSIIGYIR Write the code that will take a string and make this conversion given a number of rows: String convert(String text, int nRows); convert("paypalishiring", 3) should return "pahnaplsiigyir"

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Apr 12, 2017

Given a string "AABCCC" make a new string "2A1B3C"

Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Jun 29, 2015

Please check above

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Pinterest

3.6★

Feb 5, 2014

Print a N x M matrix in diagonal from the upper left to lower right. However, with the following caveat. It's easy to just show the input and expect output. matrix: a b c d e f g h i j k output: aej bfk cg di h

Java Developer

Interviewed at WebKul

4.1★

Feb 4, 2017

Write a program for input any number the pattern output will as below

IOS Developer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★

Jan 14, 2016

iOS developers have a "dispatch_after(when, queue, block)" Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) function they can utilize but once it's set up, these calls can not be easily cancelled. Describe how you might implement a more convenient version of this named "cancellable_dispatch_after"

Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★

Sep 16, 2016

Given many points, find k points that are closest to the origin.

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★

Jan 5, 2010

Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.