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Aside from the usual types of interview questions what stood out was being given a programming problem 48 hours before the in-person interview. The instruction were clear that a range of solutions were possible and functioning code was not mandatory.
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Newforma

4.2★
Oct 8, 2018

Aside from the usual types of interview questions what stood out was being given a programming problem 48 hours before the in-person interview. The instruction were clear that a range of solutions were possible and functioning code was not mandatory.

You will be asked to code on paper 3 scenarios 1) Generate a TinyUrl application 2) Generate a method to determine if a word is Palindrome (i.e. Abba or Eye) 3) Generate two class models for two related classes (in memory not DB) , one will hold a Merchant (or some other user's) details and the other class will hole the Stores owned by the merchant. How would you store the data in a session (Application if Web or Cache if desktop) How would you find the Merchants of a particular Name How would you find the stores belonging to a particular Merchant How would you find the stores belonging to a particular Merchant and those stores are in a particular city 4) Given an array of ints, write a C# method to total all the values that are even numbers.
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C# Principal Engineer

Interviewed at TSYS|Total System Services

3.6★
Mar 29, 2019

You will be asked to code on paper 3 scenarios 1) Generate a TinyUrl application 2) Generate a method to determine if a word is Palindrome (i.e. Abba or Eye) 3) Generate two class models for two related classes (in memory not DB) , one will hold a Merchant (or some other user's) details and the other class will hole the Stores owned by the merchant. How would you store the data in a session (Application if Web or Cache if desktop) How would you find the Merchants of a particular Name How would you find the stores belonging to a particular Merchant How would you find the stores belonging to a particular Merchant and those stores are in a particular city 4) Given an array of ints, write a C# method to total all the values that are even numbers.

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