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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 28, 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nor1 (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2012

      Interview

      1. Phone interview with a senior engineer consisting of a live coding session and technical questions. The interviewer asked only computer science theory questions and the coding challenges were a mix of moderate PHP and SQL. The interviewer disagreed with my implementation of a singleton when my implementation was the textbook way of doing it. 2. Phone interview with the VP of engineering consisting of a live coding session and technical questions. Was asked computer science theory questions and the coding challenges were all "gotcha" type scenarios. One of the PHP challenges he couldn't complete himself, and one SQL challenge had an impractical solution. 3. Nearly a full day of on-site interviews. Met with the same people as above and 5 others. I realized the culture probably wasn't a good fit for me, but otherwise it was mostly pleasant and a couple people had some really fun and challenging questions. 4. Phone interview with the VP of engineering again to discuss the possibility of interviewing instead for a Devops position. 5. Phone interview for Devops position. Turned out the position was mainly operations and not a good fit.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      How would you go about detecting a loop in a linked list in the most efficient way possible? Can you do better than N^2? Can you do better than log N?
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      Question 2

      How would you go about sorting an array of a billion 0's and 1's in the most efficient way possible?
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      Question 3

      What is the efficiency of a binary sort?
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      Question 4

      What is a factory?
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      Question 5

      Explain and diagram MVC.
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