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McAfee Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

Posted Feb 9, 2013 1 of 2 people found this helpful

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 9, 2013

Interview Details – The process had 1 written exam and 3 rounds of tech interviews.Questions in the written exam: program to implement a Stack in Java, improvise it for generics, implement a queue in Java( without using Collections API), what are private final methods, difference between equals and ==, difference between equals and hashCode.
Technical Interview Questions: What are the ways to create an Object, Executor Framework, Concurrent APIs, Singleton Pattern, Database questions-stored procedure vs functions, clustered vs non-clustered index, design questions (design a client-server software which will install McAfee agent into an enterprise having thousands of computers), how will you take care of singleton in clustered environment.
Then there were few telephonic round of interviews with people at US.

Interview Question – If there are 1000 products procuced per minute and 5 consumed per minute, design an optimum using Java Concurrent Packages so that neither producers nor consumers hog the system.   Answer Question

Other Details - I applied through a staffing agency and the process took 1+ week.

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