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      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      6 Oct 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Irvine, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at WD (Irvine, CA) in May 2012

      Interview

      Met with recruiter at a career fair at CSUF, they brought me in for an (all day) interview with many groups, and with a long test. Interviewed with 4 groups, 9 people total, lasting a little over 2 hours. Some questions were: -What is normalization (database) -How would you design a bowling scoring system? -What is the difference between an abstract class and an interface? -Write a function (on paper) that will multiply two numbers without using multiply. -Write a function (on paper) that will divide two numbers without using division. -Draw a state diagram of a vending machine The test (90 minutes) included: -Written portion – if you were to design / implement an application, what questions would you ask to the client? -Logic – lots of hex conversion, write a function or psuedocode that determines the change needed from $1 & $0.53… -C++, what is wrong with this function, write a function that does this, know pointers, abstract functions, classes… what is difference between struct and class -Java – look at code, determine output at certain lines, know how to extend & implement an abstract class or interface -HTML – name 10 html tags, write the tags to make this table, write the tags to create this form,… -Javascript – difference between QueryString and Form? something like that… -SQL – write an sql statement that gets the count where.. blah blah -.Net

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you design a bowling scoring system?
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