Software Engineering Summer Intern Interview Questions

“Difference between pointers and references.”

“There were a lot of questions regarding java trivia. One architectural question asked me to describe how I would design java to mimic the human body.”

“None were too difficult or unexpected. One I hadn't seen before was give all the test cases for a function which accepts a rectangle and a line and tests to see if any point of the line is inside…”

“I will respect my NDA. Learn everything there is in Data Structure and Algorithm. Be sure you know what you put on your CV backwards. They pick up the stuff you DO NOT put in there to grill you. So…”

“what is object and what is interference in OOD”

“what is stack and what is heap in the memory”

“We’re excited that you’re interested in a position here at Rapleaf. Why are you interested in working at Rapleaf in particular? What about Rapleaf excites you? Please limit yourself to 1-2 paragraphs.”

“If you roll 5 standard six-sided dice, what’s the probability that you get at least two 4s?

Also: you were offered the following bet: we pay you $1000 if you roll at least two 4s but you have to…”

“Bubble sort is O(n) at best, O(n^2) at worst, and its memory usage is O(1) . Merge sort is always O(n log n), but its memory usage is O(n). Explain which algorithm you would use to implement a…”