Phone Interview Questions

“What if you were on a call and your co-workers were carrying on a conversation together where they were becoming increasingly loud, what would you do?”

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“How does a garbage collection system work? How will you prevent an object from being garbage collected?

Write N-ary tree traversal code to search a node given a String key.

How many JVM instances does a tomcat server have? How would it handle multiple applications with different versions of same api (for instance log4j)?

Explain wait and notify.

Explain Generics.

What is the difference between a static class and a singleton class?

Why do you want to work for Netflix?”

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“What is the output for grep 'c[oa]t' *.cpp | more in Unix ?

Write a function to convert the string 'abcdabcdac' into 'a3b2c3d2'. Each charater is followed by the number of times in occurs in the original string. What is the order of this function? How would you improve it?

Given table A with id, name and age write a query to display distinct pairs or people with same name.

Why are indexes used?

There was a question based on Diamond inheritance hierarchy in C++.

What are static functions in C++?

What is the difference between simple function, virtual function and a pure virtual function?

What are templates in C++?”

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“Are you comfortable selling on the phone?”

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“The job we contacted you about is being 'offered to a candidate in-house.' Would you like to interview for this [lower level] position instead ?”

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“What are some group projects that you've done in the past?”

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“No difficult questions at all.”

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“In all my years in business, this was the most inept, insulting job interview.”

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“Explaining what I have been doing since my lay-off.”

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