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All questions were very interesting and do not require any deep knowledge of language/platform/framework. Questions were from different areas starting from solution architecture /design patterns and ending with multi-thread applications and optimisation for writing to hard drive. They look how you build your solution and what kind of issues you can find.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Veeam Software

3.8
Mar 10, 2017

All questions were very interesting and do not require any deep knowledge of language/platform/framework. Questions were from different areas starting from solution architecture /design patterns and ending with multi-thread applications and optimisation for writing to hard drive. They look how you build your solution and what kind of issues you can find.

Minimum number of times you need to use a scale to find the heaviest of the 8 balls, and what's the mximum number of balls you can weigh using 2 chances. Once I answered they asked the next question as What's the maximum number of balls we can use to find out the heaviest in 3 tries?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Scott Logic

2.5
Dec 8, 2022

Minimum number of times you need to use a scale to find the heaviest of the 8 balls, and what's the mximum number of balls you can weigh using 2 chances. Once I answered they asked the next question as What's the maximum number of balls we can use to find out the heaviest in 3 tries?

The interview was help in happiest minds office and the questionnaire was average and I am writing beyond because it takes only 30 words minimum and it is not allowing me to view anything else without this
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Happiest Minds Technologies

3.7
Nov 30, 2022

The interview was help in happiest minds office and the questionnaire was average and I am writing beyond because it takes only 30 words minimum and it is not allowing me to view anything else without this

Machine coding was to design a runnable code. Problem statement : Given customer Geo Location(Lat-Long) and List of Restaurants. Each restaurant consist of : - Lat long of restaurant - Name - List of Items, where each item has - Item Name - Prep Time - Sensitivity ( Low, Medium, High). Lower sensitive items like Icecream cannot be delivered more than 2 KM. - Find out List of Restaurant Given Customer and Cart is Empty - Find out SLA(Time to deliver) given cart, restaurant and Cutomer - Parameters should be Configurable like Sensitivity, Max prep time etc Second Round : - Given character a-z find out nth permutation. Where all permutation are only ascending. For e.g Given characters a,b,c. valid permutations are : a,b,c,aa,ab,ac,bb,bc,cc,aaa,aab,aac,abb,acc,baa,bab,bac,bbb,bbc,bcc,caa,cab,cac,cbb,cbc,ccc Go 4th permutation is : aa - Questions about project Third Round with CTO: Design Flipkart Flash sale architecture. 2 million hits and 20k orders in 2 sec. Find out database scalability.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Swiggy

3.5
Jun 26, 2016

Machine coding was to design a runnable code. Problem statement : Given customer Geo Location(Lat-Long) and List of Restaurants. Each restaurant consist of : - Lat long of restaurant - Name - List of Items, where each item has - Item Name - Prep Time - Sensitivity ( Low, Medium, High). Lower sensitive items like Icecream cannot be delivered more than 2 KM. - Find out List of Restaurant Given Customer and Cart is Empty - Find out SLA(Time to deliver) given cart, restaurant and Cutomer - Parameters should be Configurable like Sensitivity, Max prep time etc Second Round : - Given character a-z find out nth permutation. Where all permutation are only ascending. For e.g Given characters a,b,c. valid permutations are : a,b,c,aa,ab,ac,bb,bc,cc,aaa,aab,aac,abb,acc,baa,bab,bac,bbb,bbc,bcc,caa,cab,cac,cbb,cbc,ccc Go 4th permutation is : aa - Questions about project Third Round with CTO: Design Flipkart Flash sale architecture. 2 million hits and 20k orders in 2 sec. Find out database scalability.

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