Senior Member of Technical Staff Interview Questions

“You're on vacation and you need to provide your boss with input for a presentation to the CEO. What do you do?”

“Depth First Search algorithm and code in C to "print" values of node in a tree.”

“Implement strstr() in C.”

“Merge 2 sorted single-linked lists into the brand new list (no pointer copy allowed). The resulting list should have the data from both lists all correctly sorted.”

“Was asked to write a script to parse a tcpdump trace to detect packet loss.”

“Given 99 unique numbers between 1..100 how do you find the missing number.”

“I can't say anything because I signed the NDA and I am going to start soon.”

“a 2 hours programming exercise with a simple file system command simulator”

“What kind of communicator are you, "mellow" or "aggressive"?”