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      Software Engineer Interview

      6 Sept 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Yonkers, NY
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Consumer Reports (Yonkers, NY) in July 2019

      Interview

      1 Phone screen Technical interview. On-Site Interviews (4 Rounds) Round 1 - Team Manager Basic architecture of the product was explained. And intermittently knowledge about various technologies were gauged. Round 2 - Senior Engineer in the Team (Pair programming) Java coding, MongoDB querying, OOPs principles. Round 3 - Manager from another Engineering Team at the Company. Whiteboard coding question + Deep-dive into multi-threading and synchronization. Round 4 - Director Everything asked by the previous people will be touched upon again.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      Basic REST API questions,
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      Question 2

      Knowledge about Relational and NoSQL Databases and differences.
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      Question 3

      Multi-threading and Synchronization.
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      Question 4

      Java programming knowledge
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      Question 5

      Easy to Medium level Algorithmic question.
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      Question 6

      PL-SQL and SQL querying.
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