Software Engineer Principal Interview Questions

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Apr 8, 2010

I have superclass A and subclass B of superclass A. B overrides a function foo() in A. I have an instance of class B. How do I call foo() but using class A's version

Software Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Jul 7, 2014

Not difficult. It is like why can not compare two strings. And how to compare one object which initialed as a string with string. The coding quesition is to find the kth in two sorted arrays.

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Aug 7, 2013

Asked to write a function to determine if numbers were a power of X.

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Uber

3.7★

Feb 28, 2017

Given a string input, create a function that will output a compressed version of the string. E.g. Input = "AAABBZZDDD", Output = "A3B2Z2D3"

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Dec 31, 2017

write a function that receives a dictionary and a string and return true if the string is built of exactly two words in the dictionary

Software Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Feb 1, 2015

Difficult to answer in short and first time attempt.

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Wayfair

3.1★

Jun 3, 2015

find a way to separate money into n parts. For example, if total money is 121, find a way to separate 121 into 4 closest parts and the solution would be an array with elements 30, 30, 30, 31

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Mar 19, 2009

What sort would you use if you had a large data set on disk and a small amount of ram to work with?

Software Engineer

Interviewed at eBay

3.9★

Mar 14, 2013

Some probability question 1) given a rand5() function which provide a random number between 1-5 at equal probability. Write a rand7() fuction to provide a random number between 1-7 with equal probability...

Software Engineer

Interviewed at eBay

3.9★

Sep 24, 2013

Given a BS tree, give the median number in the tree with O(1) space.