Software Engineer Interview Questions

Anonymous Salmon - "Situation Action Result"See full answer

Hamilton D. - "no"See full answer

Saket S. - "Project Schedule is a living document which is prepared based on inputs from the entire team including product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, legal etc. It is owned by Project/Program Manager but it reflects progress of the whole team. Inputs required for the development of schedule includes project charter, list of stakeholders, project scope, WBS, freeze calendar, vendor SOWs etc. I will use the following approach for schedule development: Copy Milestone level plan from Project"See full answer

Gabriele G. - "What about exploiting the hash set and that is it? def smallestSubstring(s: str, t: str) -> str: if len(t) > len(s): return "" r = len(s) - 1 not_found = True while r > 0 and not_found: subs_set = set(s[0:r + 1]) for c in t: if not c in subs_set: not_found = False if not_found: r -= 1 else: r += 1 l = 0 not_found = True while l < r and not_"See full answer

Saurabh N. - "1) Have a common goal 2) Have a clear and fair accountability between teams 3) Ensure conflicts are resolved in time on common issues 4) Promote common Brain-storming , problem solving sessions 5) Most important , Have clear and effective communication established and practised"See full answer

B. T. - "You are given a string S and a number K as input, and your task is to print S to console output considering that, at most, you can print K characters per line. Example: S = "abracadabra sample" K = 11 Output: abracadabra sample Note that this problem requires the interviewee gather extra requirements from the interviewer (e.g. do we care about multiple white spaces? what if the length of a word is greater than K, ...)"See full answer

Anonymous Wasp - "I was able to provide the optimal approach and coded it up"See full answer

Prashanth A. - "We are asked to calculate Sum(over value) for time in (t - window_size, t) where key in (key criteria). To develop a function to set this up. Let w be the window size. I would have an observer of some kind note the key-value, and for the first w windows just add the value to a temporary variable in memory if the key meets the key criteria. Then it would delete the oldest value and add the new value if the new key meets the criteria. At each step after "w", we would take the sum / w and store"See full answer

Anonymous Boa - "Thorough analysis of the asks- what is the strategic fit, overall business value, goals? Analysis of resources - skillset/ time/ dependencies. Create a list of all the things that we have to do, rank them by value(impact), urgency and effort needed. Stakehodler inputs. Moscow priroitization/ value vs effort frameworks. Have clear communication channels with our stakehodlers to socialzie progress/ effort Sequence the asks - subject to changing circumstances. Call ou"See full answer

Jawahir Y. - "Tell me about a time you were with someone on your team who was struggling to meet objectives. How did you address the situation? What kind of feedback did you give the individual? What was the outcome?"See full answer

Darpan D. - "Clarifying When we say cloud gaming, we refer to a video gaming experience using cloud computing, right? Assumption: Yes. Understanding of cloud computing first. I'll use some analogies: Imagine you are looking to do heavy computing but don't have a powerful CPU and GPU. CPU and GPU are like your big calculators. You can buy a powerful CPU and GPU, but problems: It costs a lot to buy. It costs a lot to run. You don't need it 24-7. You are not a un"See full answer