Graduate software engineer Interview Questions

Hi do you remember what types of question have you received? Thanks

I meant what was the details of the blackjack question? just create a pysdocode / program to win against player? what other rules were there to consider?

Hi Could you kindly advise what the expectations were in the answer to this question? Were you to write a program for blackjack? Do you have the choice of programming in any language of your choice. Is pseudo code acceptable?

What are group exercise like?

They change it frequently but roughly you have some requirements, and you either have to figure the solution or build the solution (i.e. hiring a candidate based on their skills and requirements, building a Lego bridge to the requirements etc)

What’s the best way to response in group exercises? I mean what things you should do in group exercise

I brushed up on my algorithmics taught in the 2nd year of my university course before going to the interview. Search algorithms, trees etc. should be sufficient

Hi, may I ask if OOP designing question included in the onsite interview?

Hello, did the technical interview involve white board coding or is it not really that style of interview? Thanks!

The most logical way to do this, is by halving the balls into 2 x 4s. Put each half on each side of a scale, the half that is heavier will contain the heaviest ball, half the heaviest side again and repeat the process until you have one ball on each side of the scale and you find the heaviest ball, this should take only 3 attempts. If anyone has a better answer, please share :)

It can be done in two steps, if you divide into 3-3-2 groups. If the 3-3 measures equal, than the heavier is between the two left, and it's just one more step. If one of the 3s is heavier measure two of that group, if they are equal then the third is the heavier, otherwise you have found it on the balance.

Incredible that interviewers are still asking this well known brain teaser!

Derived technique from AVL trees

May I ask if there is OOP design?

Does the interview involve white board coding? Thanks!

import java.util.Arrays; public class numberOfNumbers { public static void main(String args[]) { int input = 23444550; int differentNumbers[] = new int[10]; int counter = 1; while (input != 0) { int x = input % 10; if (!isInArray(differentNumbers, x)) { differentNumbers[counter - 1] = x; counter++; } input = input/10; } System.out.println(counter); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(differentNumbers)); } public static boolean isInArray(int[] a, int x) { for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { if (a[i] == x) return true; } return false; } }

#include #include int uniqueNumCount(int num) { unordered_set uniqueNum; while(num) { int digit = num%10; num = num/10; uniqueNum.insert(digit); } return uniqueNum.size(); } int main() { int num = 123; cout << "Unique number in:" << num <<" is " << uniqueNumCount(num) << endl; num = 122; cout << "Unique number in:" << num <<" is " << uniqueNumCount(num) << endl; return 0; }

explained with real life examples.

There's a lot of elements to typically cover in these questions, clarifications, scoping, making sure you're answering the actual question the interviewer is looking for you to answer, etc. Could be worth doing a mock interview with one of the Prepfully FactSet Graduate Software Engineer experts... they've worked in the role so they clearly know how to get through the interview. prepfully.com/practice-interviews