I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Autodesk (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
There is no formal interview process guideline. It depends on the group you are interviewing with. If there is no one in the group who is an expert on the subject you are interviewing for, there won't be anyone to ask you questions about it. You would not get an interviewer who knows about the subject from another group. The hardness of your interview is dependent on who is on your group.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked very straight forward questions about the front end frameworks. What is the difference between a component and a service?
4 levels for senior software engineer, it is good, more involved technical questions and coding rounds, panel was good asking different set of questions, and also have been interviewing different projects took the interview call.
My interview opens with a discussion on technical decisions. Instead of just "What is a class?", the interviewer asks: "Why choose C++ over a managed language like Java or Python for your last project?"I focus my answer on predictable performance and fine-grained memory control. I explain that for our low-latency data processor, the overhead of a Garbage Collector (GC) was unacceptable. This leads naturally into a discussion on RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization). I explain that by tying resource lifespan to object lifetime, C++ allows for deterministic cleanup without the need for manual free() calls or a GC.
4 stages, 2 of them - coding interview, very similar, 3 and 4 - behavioral interview. Also require to enter your data several times (one of them - to a PDF file which has some bugs. Very "serious" approach.
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