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      Software Engineer Interview

      26 Sept 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Garfield Heights, OH
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Overdrive (Garfield Heights, OH) in Oct 2022

      Interview

      There are three interviews: 1. Phone call with HR 2. Phone call with a team lead/manager 3. Whiteboard coding zoom call with technical interviewers. In the phone call with HR, they asked general behavioral questions. They also described their office. They have a big office space with lots of stuff like yoga classes, gyms, cafeterias. In the interview with the team lead, they asked general technical questions, such as describing what SQL joins are, what are static variables, what are access modifiers, and the different HTTP request methods (e.g. PUT, POST, GET). They also asked the best and worst case times. With the interview with the different technical interviewers, it was a live coding / whiteboarding interview that involved pseudocode, SQL questions, and general technical questions (like how the internet works). And there was a lot of asking what the worst/best case times were. The director of software engineering then does a behavioral interview again, asking more specific questions like if you prefer backend or front-end. And also some Object Oriented programming questions too.

      Interview questions [9]

      Question 1

      * Explain the different SQL joins (Inner, Left, Right Outer)
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      Question 2

      Do you prefer back-end or front-end?
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      Question 3

      How does the internet work? As in what happens when you type in overdrive.com on a web browser? What does the server send back to you? (talk any layer) How does it show content from the information sent?
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      Question 4

      You have two SQL tables: [Salesperson] spid | name --- 1 | Robin 2 | Patrick 3 | Julie 4 Kat [Sales] sid | spid | amount --- 1 | 1 | 5.00 2 | 2 | 5.00 3 | 1 | 5.00 4 | 4 | 5.00 5 | 4 | 5.00 6 | 1 | 5.00 Write a SQL query that returns all salespeople with their total sales
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      Question 5

      Write a program in a language of your choice that outputs a given string outside-in. More formally, the characters of the word should be output starting with the first character, then the last character, then the second character, then the second-to-last character, etc. until all characters have been outputted.
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      Question 6

      Write a program in a language of your choice that, for each number from 1 to 100, prints a comma-delimited list of numbers in descending order from the current number to 1. Each list should be shown on a separate line.
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      Question 7

      what is a static variable? What's a class? what's a function?
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      Question 8

      If there are 1000 integers in a random order, and one duplicate pair, how do you find an integer that has been duplicated? What's the big O time for your solution?
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      Question 9

      Explain the various access modifiers (public/private)
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