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      Senior IOS Engineer Interview

      1 Jun 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Goodreads (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2015

      Interview

      The interview process was very quick ,got a call for a initial talk on what things I am currently working on.A technical interview was scheduled for the very next day. The technical interview was partly coding and theoretical.Questions were mostly focussed on memory management.The coding was more like given a scenario , what will be the access specifier for the properties of the class. Was shown some code snippets and asked to find the issues in the code.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      What is a process ? What is a thread ? what are the differences between a process and thread.
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      Question 2

      Can two threads share the same memory ?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      How will object memory be managed for each of the access specifiers strong,retain, atomic,nonatomic , copy , retain , when to use what ?
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      Question 4

      what is the difference between #define and const When to use a macro and when a const ? Which one is more effective ? for eg, #define MY_CONST = 10 const int MY_CONST = 10
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Delegate memory management - what should be the accessor used while declaring a delegate ?
      1 Answer
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