Senior Principal Engineer Interview Questions
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Senior Principal Engineer interview questions shared by candidates
General questions on based on your experience. Coding challenge about sorting, string processing.
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I was able to answer pretty much all.
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Tell me about your schooling and companies experience.
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Explained it very well, but he did not asked any question from my resume.
What does a good manager look like? What does a bad manager look like?
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There was no time to answer the question as the next interviewer came in.
Tell me about a difficult project you worked on? Tell me about an easy one?
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I spoke about how I pulled through on the project.
What is your greatest weakest ?
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I tend to do a lot of detailed work. As a lead engineer I should delegate more.
What is the difference between abstract vs interface? Overloading and overriding?
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You will be asked beginner dev questions.
What is the Big O of a hash table (Hash map)?
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Know the time complexity for different data structures.
If you present your technical results to an audience, and they refuse to accept it, what would you do?
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This is apparently a major issue with FA engineers, whose job is to find the issues with processes run by others, who deny the validity of their conclusions to deny their own responsibility. Less