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      Technical Architect Interview

      3 Oct 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru) in Feb 2010

      Interview

      Telephonic Round - 45 minutes duration. --------------------------------------------------------- There was one puzzle to solve. And some questions based on previous projects done. This is basically a screening round - but it is lengthy. If they do not like you in this round, you will not be called for Face2Face round. Face2Face Round - Half Day. ----------------------------------- There were three separate people who interviewed one after another. Each interview was for about 45 minutes. All three people seemed to have a different experience level. Puzzle was part of two of these interviews - it was some kind of holy grail of their interviewing. The first round questions was on core java, XSL and a Puzzle (about a pack of cards). The second round was purely about solving a problem around a legacy application(see in questions section). The third round was questions on projects i had done, writing code for a Sort Algorithm and a puzzle. Observations ------------------ 1. There is lot of stress on following areas in interview: Sort Algorithms (Bubble, Binary, Heap etc.) The Big O Notation. Puzzles 2. This results in lots of good people who don't know the above topics - to be not shortlisted. In my opinion - this is poor way of judging a candidate - but that's how it is there!

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      There are n gas stations positioned along a circular road. Each has a limited supply of gas. You can only drive clockwise around the road. You start with zero gas. Knowing how much gas you need to get from each gas station to the next and how much gas you can get at each station, design an algorithm to find the gas station you need to start at to get all the way around the circle.
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      There are several legacy applications, each integrated with other in a variety of fashions - like over web-service, or http or sockets or something else. How can we find out what those integrations are without going through code. Make suitable assumptions.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      What is the difference between REST API and Web-Service
      1 Answer
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