Software Security Engineer Interview Questions

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A junior engineer asked me a few cultural fit questions and then dived into system design for 40 min. He asked me to design Doordash. + Uber backend, Had a good conversation. But i felt the interviewer did not have much experience. He knew the basic stuff of NoSQL vs RDS, Caching, LB etc. Overall the tech screen was good.
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Software Engineer - Security

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
Sep 29, 2021

A junior engineer asked me a few cultural fit questions and then dived into system design for 40 min. He asked me to design Doordash. + Uber backend, Had a good conversation. But i felt the interviewer did not have much experience. He knew the basic stuff of NoSQL vs RDS, Caching, LB etc. Overall the tech screen was good.

Hackerrank challenge of 2nd phase - Live Coding. Given a JSON set in the form of: '{"receiver": "a@b.com", "messsage": "[reducted]," "sender": "c@b.com"}', compute the email address/-es with the most unique senders and/or receivers. Use `assert` to validate your answers.
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Software Engineer- Security

Interviewed at Yelp

3.2
Dec 21, 2020

Hackerrank challenge of 2nd phase - Live Coding. Given a JSON set in the form of: '{"receiver": "a@b.com", "messsage": "[reducted]," "sender": "c@b.com"}', compute the email address/-es with the most unique senders and/or receivers. Use `assert` to validate your answers.

Program logic to sort an array where only 0s & 1s are the elements, Asked About My Resume Projects, In Computer Architect concept- Asked about How many clock cycle required to execute certain instructions (Load, Store, Execute & etc), Math word problem based on Concept of Distance, Speed & Time
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Software Developer- Security Group

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8
Jun 15, 2017

Program logic to sort an array where only 0s & 1s are the elements, Asked About My Resume Projects, In Computer Architect concept- Asked about How many clock cycle required to execute certain instructions (Load, Store, Execute & etc), Math word problem based on Concept of Distance, Speed & Time

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