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Standard software engineer questions such as algorithms and data optimization. However, since my job is related to hardware as well, there are some questions regarding hardware design and timing problems, e.g. hold time, set-up time, and resolving timing violation.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Cadence Design Systems

4.1
Nov 3, 2016

Standard software engineer questions such as algorithms and data optimization. However, since my job is related to hardware as well, there are some questions regarding hardware design and timing problems, e.g. hold time, set-up time, and resolving timing violation.

- 1 challenge: you get two strings representing results of a competition for two players. calculate scores and return winner - 2 sql with simple calculations - you get a list of sentences and a list of string, each string has a sequence of wors. Find occurrency of these words in the sentences.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at UBS

3.7
Sep 10, 2023

- 1 challenge: you get two strings representing results of a competition for two players. calculate scores and return winner - 2 sql with simple calculations - you get a list of sentences and a list of string, each string has a sequence of wors. Find occurrency of these words in the sentences.

1) length of longest substring without repeating characters 2) producer consumer problem of thread. 3) JVM questions, memory model, GC, immutable and design ecommerce DB for product catalogue, order history, inventory. 4) design alerting and escalation system
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Arcesium

4
Feb 23, 2021

1) length of longest substring without repeating characters 2) producer consumer problem of thread. 3) JVM questions, memory model, GC, immutable and design ecommerce DB for product catalogue, order history, inventory. 4) design alerting and escalation system

First round: Filtering a JSON file based on given logic. Coding round: Find median in streaming data(Heap Implementation) Design round: Design Whatsapp Database round: Design a system, that filters and aggregates data in the given time ranges, aggregations, filtering, and storage. Hiring Manager round: Management, best practices, solid principles, containers, deployment strategies, review guide lines, motivation, learning new things, whats the most recent topic you learned. As Appropriate Round: mostly on current experience, architectures, design, databases, concurrency, technology-specific, latest version changes.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Arcesium

4
Jul 15, 2022

First round: Filtering a JSON file based on given logic. Coding round: Find median in streaming data(Heap Implementation) Design round: Design Whatsapp Database round: Design a system, that filters and aggregates data in the given time ranges, aggregations, filtering, and storage. Hiring Manager round: Management, best practices, solid principles, containers, deployment strategies, review guide lines, motivation, learning new things, whats the most recent topic you learned. As Appropriate Round: mostly on current experience, architectures, design, databases, concurrency, technology-specific, latest version changes.

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