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1) Phone screen - basic intro and a coding exercise. 2) Onsite day 1 - a) 1hr Design interview b) 1hr Technical discussion c) Lunch with manager c) 2 hour coding exercise on my laptop d) 1 hr technical discussion on past projects 2) Onsite day 2 - a) 1 hr behavioral etc. with VP b) 1 hr behavioral etc. with manager
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Box

3.9★
Sep 11, 2016

1) Phone screen - basic intro and a coding exercise. 2) Onsite day 1 - a) 1hr Design interview b) 1hr Technical discussion c) Lunch with manager c) 2 hour coding exercise on my laptop d) 1 hr technical discussion on past projects 2) Onsite day 2 - a) 1 hr behavioral etc. with VP b) 1 hr behavioral etc. with manager

Software design based questions. Questions were very ambiguous and interviewer was not willing to explain the question or answer clarifications related to the question. Seems his mind was preset with one solution and he was not allowing me to explain my though process, when the solution provided by me was not satisfying to him, he was just moving to next question, not allowing to revise the solution and he failed to pin point the flaw in my design. Overall the questions were easy but I couldn't understand what the interview was expecting.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Visa Inc.

3.8★
Jun 14, 2019

Software design based questions. Questions were very ambiguous and interviewer was not willing to explain the question or answer clarifications related to the question. Seems his mind was preset with one solution and he was not allowing me to explain my though process, when the solution provided by me was not satisfying to him, he was just moving to next question, not allowing to revise the solution and he failed to pin point the flaw in my design. Overall the questions were easy but I couldn't understand what the interview was expecting.

Car park system Implement parking spot reservation system at a car park. The system should be able to serve cars and buses. - There are two spot types: car spot and bus spot - Cars can allocate only car spot - Buses can allocate bus spot - If no bus spot is available, 2 adjacent car spots in the same row can be allocated - Car park has shape of rectangle - The system should expose RESTAPI with an endpoint for car spot reservation. This endpoint should return reserved spots IDs
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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Equinix

3.8★
Jul 21, 2023

Car park system Implement parking spot reservation system at a car park. The system should be able to serve cars and buses. - There are two spot types: car spot and bus spot - Cars can allocate only car spot - Buses can allocate bus spot - If no bus spot is available, 2 adjacent car spots in the same row can be allocated - Car park has shape of rectangle - The system should expose RESTAPI with an endpoint for car spot reservation. This endpoint should return reserved spots IDs

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