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1) Top twitter trends - with a small scale and then with twitter scale. 2) Reverse every k elements in a Singly linkedlist. 3) Given a 2D array and a list of valid words, find all the valid words in the array. etc...
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Snapdeal

4.2
Mar 5, 2016

1) Top twitter trends - with a small scale and then with twitter scale. 2) Reverse every k elements in a Singly linkedlist. 3) Given a 2D array and a list of valid words, find all the valid words in the array. etc...

system design (automations manager): i'm not sure if everyone gets the same question here but here is mine: we want to add automations to the boards, for example if status of item changed to done, we want to send SMS or Email or change something in the board (and they show you a list of their 3rd party integrations)
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Software Technical Lead

Interviewed at monday.com

4
Aug 5, 2025

system design (automations manager): i'm not sure if everyone gets the same question here but here is mine: we want to add automations to the boards, for example if status of item changed to done, we want to send SMS or Email or change something in the board (and they show you a list of their 3rd party integrations)

(2nd colleague): [scenario based session on the whiteboard, to see how you think when on the spot/pressured] 1. First question: on one of my first projects here at MS, I'm told I've got 2hrs before I have to present a genius test solution for our client's million pound project, given the following details: - migration project where an identity management software was used to populate SAP (using Active directory) - 2 env. setups (test & PROD) - Like-live test data is available - personnel resources: Architect, one third party test resource unfamiliar with the technology, client has 8man developer team offsite, you're on the team, systems support, network sme 2. Second question: you're given a WPF appl., having a single text box on it which receives 2digit numbers and processes them into a db on clicking a button. How would you test it (giving sample test data)?
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Principal Software Test Lead

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jan 21, 2016

(2nd colleague): [scenario based session on the whiteboard, to see how you think when on the spot/pressured] 1. First question: on one of my first projects here at MS, I'm told I've got 2hrs before I have to present a genius test solution for our client's million pound project, given the following details: - migration project where an identity management software was used to populate SAP (using Active directory) - 2 env. setups (test & PROD) - Like-live test data is available - personnel resources: Architect, one third party test resource unfamiliar with the technology, client has 8man developer team offsite, you're on the team, systems support, network sme 2. Second question: you're given a WPF appl., having a single text box on it which receives 2digit numbers and processes them into a db on clicking a button. How would you test it (giving sample test data)?

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