C Software Engineer Interview Questions

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Sample coding problems peppered with questions on on C++ and object-oriented design that built on the code being written. Examples are alternative approaches and the benefits or trade-offs associated with them. Lots of questions on memory management.
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C++ Developer

Interviewed at Kitware

3.3
Oct 7, 2021

Sample coding problems peppered with questions on on C++ and object-oriented design that built on the code being written. Examples are alternative approaches and the benefits or trade-offs associated with them. Lots of questions on memory management.

What happens in the memory at the backend from code compilation to execution? If you know the process ID, which command would you use to kill the process? Given a large dataset where you know the data and their IDs, which data structure would you prefer for searching? Which one have you used—SQL or NoSQL? Which is better and why? What is indexing? How does it help in searching when we don’t know the primary key or specific details?
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C++ Developer

Interviewed at Panzura

3.1
Feb 19, 2025

What happens in the memory at the backend from code compilation to execution? If you know the process ID, which command would you use to kill the process? Given a large dataset where you know the data and their IDs, which data structure would you prefer for searching? Which one have you used—SQL or NoSQL? Which is better and why? What is indexing? How does it help in searching when we don’t know the primary key or specific details?

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