Junior Software Engineer Interview Questions

Created a second list meant to hold the sorted dates. Iterated through the unsorted list, grabbing each date and found its proper sorted place in the second list. As a disclaimer this was my first interview. Maybe if I had more experience interviewing prior to this I wouldn't have found this interview difficult. In retrospect, problems given seemed manageable.

find the length of two LL. Move the pointer in longer LL by difference(say if L1 - L2 = 3 then move pointer of L1 3 times once) for the 1st time and then increment each pointer one by one.

Hashmap, list, queue, stack etc

It has too much overhead to decide at run-time which superclass needs to be used, whereas interfaces are done at compile time and don't bog down run time. When I said it was possible but the Java developers just decided not to implement it in the programming language, the interviewer seemed a little taken aback and asked if I though the Java developers were too lazy/didn't know how to implement it. This made me second-guess myself because the interviewer gave a semi-shocked reaction. If he doesn't know that they simply didn't want to implement it, he shouldn't be asking the question in an interview. If he is trying to trick candidates, that is unprofessional.

What is the difference between stack and queue? Stack is a DS where you put everything on top of it, and in order to access an element on the bottom , you need to pop everything else. Queue is a DS where every element is pushed at the end and the firs element ever pushed is always on the top. Dequeue will remove the first element on the top, aka the first element queued into the DS. Thus the difference is in how elements are stored. What is a circular linked list? Linked list is circular when a tail is connected to a head.

Really, as long as you're interested in what the people are working on, you can basically just have a conversation

I answered honestly. I felt strong in my primary coding language but was told that is impossible due to the fact that I was junior level. Interviewer told me his senior level friends at (giant tech company) were a level 5 and asked if I wanted to change my rating of myself. Of course comparing a junior level to a senior would be unbalanced. Horribly rude experience.

We definitely ask a question very close to this. In fact, recently we have started to send a survey to technical candidates with a list of languages and technical skills and ask for a 0-5 rating on each. No secret sauce here. We just want to know how you feel you rate your skill levels for each of those languages. The beauty is there are no wrong answers. In the comment above, this question was asked in a phone screen and as the commenter said, we even gave them a chance to reconsider the answer based on what a 5 might look like. We're sorry if that came across rudely. We were just trying to help a bit. We wish you the best of luck in your search. If you're applying here at Tenstreet you may find it helpful to look below is how we ask this formally. ----- CANDIDATE Thank you for submitting your application for this position here at Tenstreet! We’d like to move forward in our process with you. The next step is a short phone conversation. In preparation for our phone call, please fill out the attached self-assessment. I’ve attached both .docx and .pdf versions, just in case you don’t have a copy of Word to use. In filling it out, please give an honest opinion of your technical skills, without overthinking it or worrying that a low score in various areas would negatively impact your candidacy. We certainly do need someone with a degree of technical proficiency, but given the wide range of tasks handled in many technical positions here at Tenstreet, we prefer to focus the interview on your current strengths, with an eye on indicators of potential for growth in the other areas. Please fill out the attached assessment and return to me in 48 hours. Once we’ve received your assessment we’ll reach out to schedule our phone call. Should you run into any problems, please let me know. ----