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it contained questions like: - what is event bubbling, how it is tackled. - When to use Dapper and when to use Entity framework. - how can reactJS site be converted into NextJS website (case scenario). - what are hooks, how many i have used? - when to use useMemo and when to use useCallback?

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Talverse

3.2★
May 27, 2025

it contained questions like: - what is event bubbling, how it is tackled. - When to use Dapper and when to use Entity framework. - how can reactJS site be converted into NextJS website (case scenario). - what are hooks, how many i have used? - when to use useMemo and when to use useCallback?

It was a take home test with a lot of different components. They give you 24 hours to do, and say it should only take a few hours - it absolutely will not unless you are some god tier coffeed out savant, in my humble opinion. It wasn't hard per se, but the layers and type of question definitely calls for you to stand out as a candidate .
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Ava Labs

4.3★
Mar 6, 2023

It was a take home test with a lot of different components. They give you 24 hours to do, and say it should only take a few hours - it absolutely will not unless you are some god tier coffeed out savant, in my humble opinion. It wasn't hard per se, but the layers and type of question definitely calls for you to stand out as a candidate .

The code and design part is flawed: you have 1 hour for each of them but there are questions/presentation at the beginning so you have less than that. You could admit your system design has some parts that need to be given more thought, but it doesn't matter it has to be good.
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Interviewed at theScore

3.3★
Jul 30, 2022

The code and design part is flawed: you have 1 hour for each of them but there are questions/presentation at the beginning so you have less than that. You could admit your system design has some parts that need to be given more thought, but it doesn't matter it has to be good.

Questions are specific depending on your background, mine covered the following topics: - MPI basics - Optimizing GPU kernels - Coupling C/C++ and FORTRAN codes - Transposing a 2D pointer array - Roofline model analysis
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Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at AMD

4★
Nov 6, 2020

Questions are specific depending on your background, mine covered the following topics: - MPI basics - Optimizing GPU kernels - Coupling C/C++ and FORTRAN codes - Transposing a 2D pointer array - Roofline model analysis

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