Entry Level Software Engineer Interview Questions
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build a prescription class
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I did not receive an offer yet. There wasn't an option for that so I just said no offer and figured I could update it later if I did. I did get a follow up email saying the interview went great and asking me if I had any other offers. Less
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Can you guys post me how the questions will be I have my interview in next week.
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hey did you get any response from them
They asked me to extract words from the parse tree. e.g. ((NJ (NN James) XX is) (AJ tall)) -> James is tall. Another question is to reverse a string an capitalize all the starting positions of words and lower case all the ending positions of words. e.g. Hello World -> Dlrow Olleh
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After the online interview how many more rounds of interviews were there?
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def reveseCapitalize(s): s = s.lower() s = s[::-1] s = s.title() return s print(reveseCapitalize('Hello World')) Less
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The above doesn't work if there's a possibility of letters besides the first being capitalized Less
Populate an array of numbers from 1 to N (inclusive). Given two numbers, p and q , if a number in the array is divisible by p print OUT, if a number is divisible by q print THINK. If number is divisible by both p and q, print OUTTHINK. Otherwise, print the number.
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seems like a variation of fizzbuzz. Should not be difficult.
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"#Python Solution from array import * def problem_1(N,p,q): array_1 = array( 'i', range(1,N+1)) for n in array_1: if n % p == 0: print 'OUT' elif n % q == 0: print 'THINK' elif n % p == 0 and n % q==0: print 'OUTTHINK' else: print n problem_1(20,6,8)" Doent't work, think how an else-if sentence is used in compilation :) Less
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the second one is certainly fizzbuzz, you were overthinking.
Tell me about yourself?
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yeah even me attended on the same day, even i didnt get any mail after gd , did anyone get ?? Less
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It's been a month for today , did anyone get offerletter from infor
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I got it 2 days bac
Write up and populate a linked list in C#.
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I built a class with a connection variable and a value variable. Populated it appropriately. Less
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Did you end up re-interviewing? If you did, were hired afterwards?
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Similar experience... did they give you any time estimate when they’ll call you back? Less
Experience working on technical projects as part of a team
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Talk about any challenges you faced and how you overcame them
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Hello, Can I please reach you somehow. I need to ask some questions. I would be really thankful. Less
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Can you please tell me about the kind of questions on your hackerrank interview and their difficulty and the technical questions in the onsite interview? Less
Basic OOP related questions and Java question about different data structures.
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Hey, I just recently accepted there offer and was wondering how long did the background check link take. It's been around 2 weeks. Less
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In my case the background check took 3 weeks after which the company reviews the background check report before they give you the drug test. It has been 3 weeks since the report was ready but the company is taking their own time to review the report. Even my starting date got delayed. Less
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That is long and I'm here still waiting for the background check link, did you have to do something or they just send you the link? what I'm asking is how long did it take to get the email from HireRight. thank you for your reply. Less
1) Problem-solving which includes pattern matching. 2) Greedy algorithm two dimensions array question of hard level which was impossible to complete in 75 mins 3) Finding complexity ( Multiple choose question ) 4) HashMap easy ( Multiple choose question ) I all most did all the question and I got rejected. I don't know on what criteria they rejected me.
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Did all the test cases pass for your program in Hacker rank assessment?
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no
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I got rejected
What is polymorphism?
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Is there any option for coding language? Python/Java/C++?
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It's essential to demonstrate that you can really go deep... there are plenty of followup questions and (sometimes tangential) angles to explore. There's a lot of Entry Level Software Engineer experts who've worked at IBM, who provide this sort of practice through mock interviews. There's a whole list of them curated on Prepfully. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
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When one function can do many task
Array reverse without using iteration. Code in C.
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Recursin
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unsigned int A[N] (is global variable) l - is left index r - is right index swap(unsigned int l , unsigned int r) { tmp = A [ r ]; A [ r ] = A [ l ]; A[ l ] = tmp; } void reverse ( unsigned int l , unsigned int r ) { if ( l + 1 >= r ) return; reverse( l + 1 , r - 1 ); swap( l , r ); } Call it by: reverse ( 0 , N - 1 ); Less
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#include #define ARRAY_SIZE 20 void reverse( int *array, unsigned int l, unsigned int r ); int main(int argc, char** argv) { int array[ARRAY_SIZE]; int i; printf("Before: "); for( i = 0; i = r ) { return; } int tmp = array[l]; array[l] = array[r]; array[r] = tmp; reverse( array, l+1, r-1); } Less