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Guidewire Senior Software Engineer Interview

Posted Jul 27, 2009

No Offer – Interviewed in San Mateo, CA Jul 2009 – Reviewed Jul 27, 2009

Interview Details – Was contacted by recruiter via email and phone and called in to a technical interview right away. Met the recruiter in the offices and was taken to a conference room. The interviewers were friendly, talked for 15 minutes about the company and their product, then did a whiteboard programming exercise.

Interview Question – Implement a sparse matrix Java class with a constructor, set and get method. The matrix has millions of rows and columns and is at a maximum 15% populated.   View Answer

Other Details - I applied through a recruiter and the process took a day.

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