Software Engineer Interview Questions

Lati K. - "I generally struggle with stakeholders and partners who doesn't communicate enough. Now it could be either they don't invest sufficient time and energy in doing so or at times they lack the skill sets to do so. In both the cases, the entire responsibility fell on the other person to dig deep into why someone is doing the way they are doing, reading into patterns and behaviour of their personality and adapting to those communication styles"See full answer

Robert H. - "The addition of an intermediate "sanitization" ML is something Neeraj used in the Uber Eats design and again seems kind of outside the scope here and redundant. This can simply be built into the AI response model to save a step. It's not clear what benefit this step provides, and he basically said we should have it "just because it would be good" and there's no concrete reasoning why to include it. Adding a Kafka queue to handle the thumbs-down ratings? For what purpose do you need a queue othe"See full answer

Karan K. - "2 Approaches: 1) The more intuitive approach is doing a multi-source BFS from all cats and storing the distance of closest cats. Then do a dfs/bfs from rat to bread. Time Complexity: O(mn + 4^L) where L is path length, worst case L could be mn Space Complexity: O(m*n) 2) The first approach should be fine for interviews. But if they ask to optimize it further, you can use Binary Search. Problems like "Finding max of min distance" or "Finding min of max" could be usually solved by BS. "See full answer

Gaston B. - "Use a representative of each, e.g. sort the string and add it to the value of a hashmap> where we put all the words that belong to the same anagram together."See full answer

Rahul .. - "''' Problem Statement: Design a simplified Robinhood-like stock trading platform. Requirements: User Management: createuser(userid, name, initial_balance): Create user with cash balance getbalance(userid): Get user's cash balance deposit(user_id, amount): Add funds to account withdraw(user_id, amount): Withdraw funds (if sufficient balance) Stock Operations: updatestockprice(symbol, price): Update current price of a stock getstockprice(symb"See full answer

Erjan G. - "def reverseString(s): chars = list(s) l, r = 0, len(s) - 1 while l < r: chars[l], chars[r] = chars[r], chars[l] l += 1 r -= 1 reversed_str = "".join(chars) return reversed_str `"See full answer

Anna D. - "Situation. Initially, my team consisted of young guys who were hired by team leaders based on hardskills. Previously, the company had just begun the transition from a process-based to a product-based approach. In the process of searching and selecting candidates, the interests of the team and the product owner were not taken into account. The candidate didn't pass a behavioral interview on soft skills. Thus, the team consisted of diverse and talented guys, but not very interested in fast wor"See full answer

Shivastuti K. - "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."See full answer

Nesru M. - "Good to you The addition of an intermediate "sanitization" ML is something Neeraj used in the Uber Eats design and again seems kind of outside the scope here and redundant. This can simply be built into the AI response model to save a step. It's not clear what benefit this step provides,"See full answer

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Anubhav S. - " At low level: I would use two stacks: one for forward history and other for backward history. i go to tryexponent.com => this url will be stored in backward history stack. i go to google => again this url will be stored in backward history stack. i press back => data from backward history will be popped and put in to forward history stack. I press forward => data from forward history stack will be popped and put in to backward history tab. Also, whenever i go to any url,"See full answer

Kofi N. - "const mergeIntervals = (intervals) => { const compare = (a, b) => { if(a[0] b[0]) return 1 else if(a[0] === b[0]) { return a[1] - b[1] } } let current = [] const result = [] const sorted = intervals.sort(compare) for(let i = 0; i = b[0]) current[1] = b[1] els"See full answer

Ritu G. - "In order to earn team members trust you need to show - 1- You need to show them you trust them. Treat others the way you wanted to be treated. 2- Do what you say. Keep commitments. 3- Listen 4- Admit when you make mistakes 5- Consistently make good decisions "See full answer