Cerner Software Engineer Interview

Interview Details Following were the Interview Qs:

Intro:
• Tell me about yourself
• Why do u want to work at Cerner
> Why you want to leave you current job
> Best thing about your job
> Least thing you liked abt your job

HR:
• Describe a situation where you have difficulties with your team members
• Describe a scenario where you tried to troubleshoot and you succeeded
• Describe a scenario where you tried to troubleshoot and you failed
• What are your 3 biggest achievements so far
• were the Managers unhappy about your work anytime?
• What is the biggest mistake you made in a past job.
• What was the challenging work in your career

Techie:
• If a user reports that an application is slow, what steps would you take?
• What are scopes in programming languages and their uses?
• Explain a chess board in term of OOPS. What methods, functions, etc
• How would you go about designing a program that determines whether or not a number is prime?
• How would you go about coding a game of checkers?
• What's the difference in encapsulation and inheritance?
• What is database normalization?
• Make a binary tree where the nodes are the letters in "Cerner".
• String reversal program was given and I was told to explain the output.
• Question about unit testing. How to create unit test cases.
• What is a deadlock?
• If there was anything you wanted to change about a programming language, what would it be?
• How will you manage the memory while programming.
• Complexity of linked list and tree insertion
• Explain the differences between searching through a linked list vs. a binary tree
• explain a time when you used polymorphism
• DBMS vs RDBMS
• Linked List implementation

Negotiation Details – I dint try but u can if hv experience of atleast 6 months