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The interview questions were based on various topics ( all that I had on my resume), however on each of the question, the main focus was on problem handling, reaction and solution (even though you are not able to hit the right solution, please speak up with your ideas. In my case, I did and the interviewers did help me move forward). The interviewers were cordial and made sure I was comfortable and could think in a calm manner. The emphasis was more on problem solving and thinking in the right direction ( rather than language or specifics of a code). For example - 1) Design a web based application ( emphasis was on load balancing, failures etc). 2) Construct your own linked list
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Senior Service Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Sep 28, 2015

The interview questions were based on various topics ( all that I had on my resume), however on each of the question, the main focus was on problem handling, reaction and solution (even though you are not able to hit the right solution, please speak up with your ideas. In my case, I did and the interviewers did help me move forward). The interviewers were cordial and made sure I was comfortable and could think in a calm manner. The emphasis was more on problem solving and thinking in the right direction ( rather than language or specifics of a code). For example - 1) Design a web based application ( emphasis was on load balancing, failures etc). 2) Construct your own linked list

Puzzle ------- Eg: Assume you have 4 strings formed from a,b,c,d like abcd, acdb, adbc, bcda Output should be "bc",3 as "bc" is the largest substring repeated in 3 input strings. Few more examples to understand it. Inp1: {abcd,abcd,abcd,abcd} Out1: abcd,4 Inp2: {abcd,dabc,acbd} Out2: abc,2 Inp3: {abcd,dabc,adbc} Out3: bc,3 All the chars are distinct and all the chars are repeated in each string(You can relax these restrictions if you want). If 4 input strings are given then the output should be like, if you have subString of size 3 present in 3 inputs and subString of size 4 present in 3 inputs but a subString of size 2 present in 4 inputs then you should print the last one as output. But as it is obvious a subString of size 1 will be repeated in all the inputs but you should consider subString od size > 2 and repeated in max of the inputs. To say mathematically, high priority is given to the number of repetitions followed by the size of the subString.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Deem

3.6★
Jun 22, 2013

Puzzle ------- Eg: Assume you have 4 strings formed from a,b,c,d like abcd, acdb, adbc, bcda Output should be "bc",3 as "bc" is the largest substring repeated in 3 input strings. Few more examples to understand it. Inp1: {abcd,abcd,abcd,abcd} Out1: abcd,4 Inp2: {abcd,dabc,acbd} Out2: abc,2 Inp3: {abcd,dabc,adbc} Out3: bc,3 All the chars are distinct and all the chars are repeated in each string(You can relax these restrictions if you want). If 4 input strings are given then the output should be like, if you have subString of size 3 present in 3 inputs and subString of size 4 present in 3 inputs but a subString of size 2 present in 4 inputs then you should print the last one as output. But as it is obvious a subString of size 1 will be repeated in all the inputs but you should consider subString od size > 2 and repeated in max of the inputs. To say mathematically, high priority is given to the number of repetitions followed by the size of the subString.

The interviews went very well. Everybody was very friendly. After 3 interviews they then they sent me an application to fill out that requested the gender and ages of my dependents and my spouse's complete name, birthdate, and social security number. Completely illegal practice. There was an actual line on the application that stated unless every line on the application was filled out then it would be null and void and every line must be filled in order to apply for the job.
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Senior Network Engineer

Interviewed at Saudi Aramco

4.2★
Feb 26, 2015

The interviews went very well. Everybody was very friendly. After 3 interviews they then they sent me an application to fill out that requested the gender and ages of my dependents and my spouse's complete name, birthdate, and social security number. Completely illegal practice. There was an actual line on the application that stated unless every line on the application was filled out then it would be null and void and every line must be filled in order to apply for the job.

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