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What situations do you feel most comfortable in? This sounds super straightforward, but for some reason I was a bit stumped. It was not asked to trick me, just a simple question, and I had to think for a minute. It got me thinking deeper after the interview and why that question struck me awkwardly. Other than that, the interview was quite smooth, and I had a good mix of personal conversation, and conversation about ERM and my background.
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Staff Engineer

Interviewed at ERM

3.5
Jun 5, 2014

What situations do you feel most comfortable in? This sounds super straightforward, but for some reason I was a bit stumped. It was not asked to trick me, just a simple question, and I had to think for a minute. It got me thinking deeper after the interview and why that question struck me awkwardly. Other than that, the interview was quite smooth, and I had a good mix of personal conversation, and conversation about ERM and my background.

The interviewer did not ask a single technical question. He began telephone interview asking for my email and sending me a WebEx Invite and asked me to be in the video. He had scheduled a 1-hour meeting after 15 minutes he ended the conversation without asking a single technical question. I talked about my current role and previous experience but he was not interested in listening, Since he didn't ask any question and forced me to be on the video, I would think he did not like my face.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Walmart

3.4
Apr 20, 2018

The interviewer did not ask a single technical question. He began telephone interview asking for my email and sending me a WebEx Invite and asked me to be in the video. He had scheduled a 1-hour meeting after 15 minutes he ended the conversation without asking a single technical question. I talked about my current role and previous experience but he was not interested in listening, Since he didn't ask any question and forced me to be on the video, I would think he did not like my face.

Algorithms - Anagrams, merging multiple sorted arrays and explain time complexity, reverse print of a given array using lambda expressions, differences between snappy and gzip, different types of formats like avro, json, xml...
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Staff Big Data Engineer

Interviewed at PlayStation

4.1
Oct 13, 2016

Algorithms - Anagrams, merging multiple sorted arrays and explain time complexity, reverse print of a given array using lambda expressions, differences between snappy and gzip, different types of formats like avro, json, xml...

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