Posts Tagged ‘interview question’

Functional programming interview question

{ Posted on Aug 26 2009 by claudio }
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I think that examining the hiring process of a company you can understand a lot of what would be working there. As Joel Spolsky wrote, you should only hire people who are Smart and Get Things Done and a good way ...Read More »

Merging arrays

{ Posted on Jun 13 2009 by claudio }
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Thanks to interviewpattern.com I discovered that one of the classical Amazon interview questions is writing a snippet of code to merge two sorted arrays: "Suppose we have two sorted arrays A[] of m elements and B[] of n elements. Write a ...Read More »

Facebook FizzBuzz

{ Posted on Jan 23 2009 by claudio }
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Have you ever tried looking for "FizzBuzz" on a search engine? If you do, you'll surely land on this page on Coding Horror, the blog written by Jeff Atwood. To make a long story short, Jeff states that the vast majority of ...Read More »

The missing number

{ Posted on Jul 01 2008 by claudio }
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There is an interesting series of programming job interview challenges proposed by Dev102.com, which is now at its tenth puzzle: This week question is pretty easy. Your input is an unsorted list of n numbers ranging from 1 to n+1, all ...Read More »

Google Interview Question: Product of other Elements in an Array in O(n)

{ Posted on Jun 10 2008 by claudio }
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Last time I was interviewed for a software development engineer position, the recruiter asked me some of the classical Microsoft interview questions, such as "How Would You Move Mount Fuji?" or "How many gas station are there in your country?". It ...Read More »