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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      30 Mar 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      Round 1: a recruiter calls you. They will ask you a few simple questions. Things such as "what's faster, quicksort or bubblesort". If you answer enough of these correctly, you get to the next round. If you fail here: stop moaning, go away and go improve yourself, there is no way you would have passed the later stages anyway. Round 2: an engineer will call you, and interview you for 45 minutes. Only the "best" interviewers get to do what we call "first phone screens" because that's where the most people get kicked out. Round 3: exactly the same as round 2, but with a different engineer. From the interviewer's perspective, second phone screens are infinitely better than first phone screens, because the totally incompetent have been weeded out already. Round4: onsite interviews! you will have 3 interviews of 45 minutes, lunch, and 2 more interviews. These are basically the same as phone screens, but you get to see the interviewers face to face.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Imagine you are given 10,000 files each containing 1 Million integers. I would you sum all of them and give the final result? ---> Interviewer wanted to test scalability, distributed concepts. He has written the basic code and wanted to improve upon that. Here's the basic code. public getSum(String[] file_names) { int sum = 0; for(String f: file_names) { sum = sum + sumOfFile(f); } return sum; } Questions: What's wrong with above code? Ans: Integer overflow How would you implement sumOfFile? What if 'sumOfFile' takes lot of time to finish computing? How do you fasten the program?
      1 Answer
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