Software Engineer Senior Interview Questions

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Sep 9, 2012

Given a list of 1,000,000 integer (1 to 1,000,000 with no repeat), how to sort the list with only 1 mb of memory space.

Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Mar 14, 2013

Linked list memory management: deleting a node from the middle of a list was easy. Next question - how to delete a node from the end of a list. Was too tired to think and realize this was a trick question.

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Mar 14, 2011

how many blocks on an n x n megablock are not on the edge?

Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

Feb 22, 2010

25 racehorse question. Given 25 horses a track that can only race 5 at a time, what is the fewest # of races to find the top 3 ranked horses?

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Avanade

3.7★

Mar 25, 2009

It was a question about graphics / topology - how to do lines between a few points drawn on the whiteboard without the lines crossing each other.

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Naughty Dog

4★

Nov 4, 2014

What's the fastest way to tell if 2 signed floats are the same polarity?

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Twitch

3.7★

May 15, 2014

What's the difference between JavaScript and Python?

Software Developer

Interviewed at Epic

3.3★

Jul 31, 2009

Write a function which, given n, prints all well-ordered integers of n digits. A well ordered number is one where the value of the i-th digit is less than the value of the i+1 digit.

Software Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

3★

Feb 15, 2020

Given two array of characters, add them together like an addition problem and return them in a char array. ['3', '5', '9'] ['1', 2', '8', '4'] = 1284 + 359 = 1643 = ['1', '6', '4', '3']

UI Developer Intern

Interviewed at GE

4.1★

Jul 7, 2016

What is the difference between display inline and inline-block ?